Konda language (Dravidian)

Konda
Region India
Ethnicity Konda-Dora
Native speakers
20,000 (2007)[1]
Dravidian
  • South-Central

    • Gondi–Kui
      • Dora
        • Konda
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kfc
Glottolog kond1295[2]

Konda, also known as Konda-Dora, is one of the Dravidian languages spoken in India. It is spoken by the scheduled tribe of the Konda-Dora.

Phonology

Consonants [3]
Labial Dental/Alveolar Retroflex Dorsal/Glottal
Nasal m n ɳ ŋ
Plosive voiceless p ʈ k
voiced b ɖ ɡ
Fricative voiceless ɳ (h)
voiced z
Tap ɾ ɽ
Trill voiceless
voiced r
Approximant central w j
lateral l m

References

  1. Konda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Konda-Dora". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-511-06037-3.
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