Juang language

Juang
Native to India
Region Orissa
Ethnicity Indian
Native speakers
 24,000 (2001 census)[1]
Austroasiatic

  • Munda

    • Kharia–Juang
      • Juang
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jun
Glottolog juan1238[2]

The Juang language is a language spoken primarily by the Juang people of Odisha state, eastern India.

Classification

The Juang language belongs to the Munda language family, the whole of which is classified as a branch of the greater Austroasiatic language family. Among the Munda languages, Juang is considered to be most closely related to Kharia, although Anderson considers Juang and Kharia to have split off from each other relatively early.[1]

Juang can be roughly divided into the Hill and Plains varieties, both of which are spoken in Odisha (Patnaik 2008:508).

Distribution

Juang is spoken by about 30,875 people according to the 2001 Indian census. In Odisha state, it is spoken in southern Keonjhar district, northern Angul district, and eastern Dhenkanal district (Patnaik 2008:508).

Juang is currently an Endangered language and is considered to vulnerable, or (not spoken by children outside of home).

Juang currently has roughly under 20,000 speakers remaining

Grammar

In Juang a number of roots are clearly exempt from the Transitive verb/Intransitive verb opposition, so that the function of the root can be determined only from its co-occurrence with the particular set of tense markers.

For Example,

pag- Set I 'to break' -Set II 'to be broken1

rag- Set I 'to tear' - Set II 'to be torn1

guj- Set I 'to wash' - Set II 'to be was

Writing System

The writing system used by people who speak the Juang language is Oriya script.

References

  1. 1 2 Juang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Juang". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links


  1. ↑ "Juang - MultiTree". multitree.org. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
  2. ↑ "ScriptSource - Oriya". scriptsource.org. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
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