Konda language (Dravidian)
| Konda | |
|---|---|
| Region | India |
| Ethnicity | Konda-Dora |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2007)[1] |
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Dravidian
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| 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
| Labial | Dental/Alveolar | Retroflex | Dorsal/Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | |
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | k |
| voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | ɡ | |
| Fricative | voiceless | ɳ | (h) | ||
| voiced | z | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | ɽ | |||
| Trill | voiceless | r̥ | |||
| voiced | r | ||||
| Approximant | central | w | j | ||
| lateral | l | m | |||
References
- ↑ Konda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Konda-Dora". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-511-06037-3.
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