Social:Chenchu language
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Short description: Dravidian language of India
| Chenchu | |
|---|---|
| చెంచు | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Andhra Pradesh (highest concentration in Kurnool district, Prakasam district, Guntur district), Telangana (Mahabubnagar district), Karnataka and Orissa |
| Ethnicity | Chenchu people |
Native speakers | 26,000 (2007)e25 |
| Telugu alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cde |
| Glottolog | chen1255[2] |
Chenchu language (cde) is a Dravidian language which belongs to the Telugu branch of its South-Central family. This language is spoken mostly in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states in India by about 280,764 people (1981 census) of the Chenchu Aboriginal forests hunter-gatherer tribe.[3] It is also called Chenchukulam, Chenchwar, Chenswar or Choncharu.
References
- ↑ Zvelebil (1990), p. 57.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Chenchu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/chen1255.
- ↑ Krishnamurti 2003, p. 208: "Chenchu is a tribal Dravidian language spoken mainly in the Nallamala forests in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana."
Sources
- Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian Languages. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-43533-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=54fV7Lwu3fMC&pg=PA208.
- "Chenchu language". https://www.ethnologue.com/language/cnu. "Chenchu is a vulnerable Dravidian language spoken in forested regions of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana by the Chenchu tribe, classified as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group."
- Zvelebil, Kamil (1990). Dravidian Linguistics: An Introduction. Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture. ISBN 978-81-8545-201-2.
Further reading
- Government of India, Ministry of Tribal Affairs (2020). Report on Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) (Report). https://tribal.nic.in/downloads/StatisticalProfileofScheduledTribesinIndia.pdf. Retrieved 2025-06-01. "The Chenchu tribe is one of the 75 PVTGs, with a distinct language and culture in forested areas of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh."
- Reddy, V. S. S. (2019). "Language Endangerment and Preservation: The Case of Chenchu". International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics 48 (1): 45–56. https://dravidianlinguistics.org/ijdl/volume48/issue1/chenchu.pdf. Retrieved 2025-06-01. "The use of Telugu language has increased among Chenchu children, contributing to endangerment of the Chenchu language.".
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