Social:Manna-Dora language

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Short description: Dravidian language of India

Manna-Dora
Native toIndia
RegionAndhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
Ethnicity30,000 (no date)[1]
Native speakers
18,000 (2011)e25
Telugu alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3mju
Glottologmann1245[3]

Manna-Dora is either a nearly extinct Dravidian language closely related to Telugu, or a dialect of Telugu.[1] It is spoken by the eponymous Scheduled Tribe in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named e25
  2. Zvelebil (1990), p. 57.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Manna-Dora". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mann1245. 
  4. "List of notified Scheduled Tribes". Census India. pp. 21–22. http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/ST%20Lists.pdf. 

Sources

  • Zvelebil, Kamil (1990), Dravidian Linguistics: An Introduction, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, ISBN 978-81-8545-201-2