Pengo language

Pengo
Region	India
Native speakers	350,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Dravidian South-Central Gondi–Kui Manda–Pengo Pengo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	peg
Glottolog	peng1244[2]

Pengo^[3] is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken in Odisha. Most speakers are fluent in Oriya.

Phonology

Consonants^[4]

		Labial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɳ		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	ʈ	c	k
	voiced	b	d	ɖ	ɟ	ɡ
Fricative	voiceless		ɳ				h
	voiced		z
Approximant	central	ʋ			j
	lateral		l	m
Tap			ɾ	ɽ

References

1. Pengo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pengo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. also Pengu; Hengo; Hengo Poraja; Jani; Muddali; Paraja; Pango; Pengua
4. Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780511060373.

External links

• Pengo basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database