Social:Madiya language

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Short description: Dravidian language spoken in India


Maria
Madiya
Native toIndia
Native speakers
365,000 (2000)[1]
Dravidian
  • South-Central
    • Gondi–Kui
      • Gondi languages
        • Maria
Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
mrr – Garhchiroli Maria
daq – Dandami Maria
Glottologmari1414  Maria[2]
dand1238  Dandami Maria[3]

Madiya or Maria 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]

Consonants
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

  1. Garhchiroli Maria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Dandami Maria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 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. 
  3. 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. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003). The Dravidian languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 25. ISBN 9780521771115. https://archive.org/details/dravidianlanguag00kris. 
  5. "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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