Social:Duruwa language

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Short description: Dravidian language spoken in India
Dhurwa and Durua
ଦୁରୁଆ, धुरुवा
Durua
Native toIndia
EthnicityDuruwa (Durua)
Native speakers
52,349 (2011 census)[1]
Dravidian
  • Central Dravidian
    • Parji–Gadaba
      • Dhurwa and Durua
Odia script, Devanagari script
Language codes
ISO 639-3pci
Glottologdurua1236[2]

Duruwa (pci, Odia: ଦୁରୁଆ, Devanagari: धुरुवा) or Dhuruwa or Durua is a Central Dravidian language spoken by the Duruwa people of India, in the districts of Koraput in Odisha and Bastar in Chhattisgarh. The language is related to Ollari and Kolami, which is also spoken by other neighbouring tribes.

Classification

Duruwa is a member of the Central Dravidian languages.[3][4] Duruwa is a spoken language and is generally not written. Whenever it is written, it makes use of the Devanagari script in Bastar district and Odia script in Koraput district.

Phonology

Vowels[5]
Front Central Back
short long short long short long
High i u
Mid e o
Low a
Consonants[5]
Labial Dental Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m ɲ ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t ʈ c k
voiced b d ɖ ɟ ɡ
Fricative (s) (h)
Approximant median ʋ j
lateral l
Tap ɾ ɽ

Dialects

References

  1. "Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India". http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html. 
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Duruwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/durua1236. 
  3. 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 978-90-04-09066-8. 
  4. Stassen, Leon (1997). Intransitive Predication. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory. Oxford University Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-19-925893-2. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 57. ISBN 9780511060373.