Duruwa language

Duruwa language
Duruwa
दुरुवा
Spoken in India
Native speakers 80,000  (2002)
Language family
Dravidian
  • Central Dravidian
    • Kolami–Parji
      • Parji–Gadaba
        • Duruwa
Writing system Devanagari script, Oriya script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pci

Duruwa language (Devanagari:दुरुवा ), also called, Parji is a Central Dravidian language spoken by the ‘Dhurwa’ tribe, a Scheduled tribe people of India, in the districts of Koraput and Bastar in Chhattisgarh State. The language is related to Ollari and Kolami which is also spoken by the other tribes in the neighbouring regions.

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Classification

Duruwa is a member of the Central Dravidian languages.[1][2] Duruwa is a spoken language and generally not written, whenever it is written it makes use Devanagari script in Bastar district and Oriya script in Koraput district

Phonology

Consonants[3]
Labial Dental Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t ʈ c k
voiced b d ɖ ɟ g
Fricative (s) (h)
Nasal m n ɳ ɲ ŋ
Approximant central ʋ j
lateral l
Tap ɾ ɽ

Dialects

There are four dialects namely

  • Tiriya
  • Nethanar
  • Dharba
  • Kukanar

References

  1. ^ Fairservis, Walter Ashlin (1997). The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing: A Model for the Decipherment of the Indus Script. Asian Studies. Brill Academic Publishers. p. 78. ISBN 978-9004090668. 
  2. ^ Stassen, Leon (1997). Intransitive Predication. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory. Oxford University Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0199258932. 
  3. ^ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

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