Social:Kondekor language

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Short description: Central Dravidian language spoken in India
Kondekor
Gadaba, San Gadaba, Gadba, Sano, Kondekar, Kondkor, Konḍekor Gadaba, Mudhili Gadaba
Native toIndia
Native speakers
8,000 Kondekor (2002; 2000)[1]
Dravidian
  • Central
    • Parji–Gadaba
      • Kondekor
Telugu script
Language codes
ISO 639-3gau
Glottologmudh1235  Mudhili Gadaba[2]

The Kondekor language (also known as Gadaba, San Gadaba, Gadba, Sano, Kondekar, Kondkor, Konḍekor Gadaba, Mudhili Gadaba) is a Central Dravidian language. A closely related variety is Ollari (also known as Pottangi Ollar Gadaba, Ollar Gadaba, Ollaro, Hallari, Allar, Hollar Gadbas). The two have been treated either as dialects, or as separate languages.[3] They are spoken in and around Pottangi, Koraput district, Orissa and in Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh, India .

Phonology

Vowels[4]
Front Central Back
short long short long short long
High i u
Mid e o
Low a
  • There are some nasalized vowels with rare occurrence.
Consonants[4]
Labial Dental/
Alveolar
Retroflex Palatal Velar
Nasal m ɳ ŋ
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p ʈ t͡ʃ k
voiced b ɖ d͡ʒ ɡ
Fricative voiceless s
voiced
Approximant ʋ l j
Rhotic r

References

  1. Kondekor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Mudhili Gadaba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mudh1235. 
  3. Krishnamurti (2003), p. 26.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Krishnamurti (2003), pp. 85, 87

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