Social:Madiya language
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Short description: Dravidian language spoken in India
| Maria | |
|---|---|
| Madiya | |
| Native to | India |
Native speakers | (365,000 cited 2000)[1] |
Dravidian
| |
| Devanagari | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:mrr – Garhchiroli Mariadaq – Dandami Maria |
| Glottolog | mari1414 Maria[2]dand1238 Dandami Maria[3] |
Madiya or Maria (daq) is a Dravidian language spoken in India. It may be regarded as a dialect of Gondi, but is suspected to be mutually unintelligible with most other Gondi varieties.[4]
Phonology
Phonology of Abhuj Maria:[4]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | ʈ | k | |
| voiced | b | d | ɖ | g | ||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | ||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | |||||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
| Approximant | w | l | ɽ | j | ||
| Trill | r | |||||
Hill Maria has 3 additional consonants: a glottal stop /ʔ/, a retroflex nasal /ɳ/, and a uvular fricative /ʁ/.[4]
In 2019, a former professor published the first book in the Madiya language.[5]
References
- ↑ Garhchiroli Maria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Dandami Maria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Maria (India)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mari1414.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Dandami Maria". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dand1238.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003). The Dravidian languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 25. ISBN 9780521771115. https://archive.org/details/dravidianlanguag00kris.
- ↑ "First book on Madiya language released in city". 9 July 2019. https://www.thebridgechronicle.com/pune/first-book-madiya-language-released-city-37639.
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