Social:Muria language
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Short description: Dravidian language spoken in India
| Muria | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
Native speakers | 15,864 (2011 census)[1] |
Dravidian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:emu – Eastern Muriamut – Western Muriafmu – Far Western Muria (Gaita Koitor) |
| Glottolog | east2340 Eastern[2]west2408 Western[3]farw1235 Far Western[4] |
Muria is a Dravidian language spoken in India . Three varieties have mutual intelligibility.[citation needed] It is sometimes confused with the Madiya language. It is suspected to be mutually unintelligible with northern Gondi dialects.[5]
Phonology
Muria has 10 vowels and 21 consonants.[6]
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Stop | voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | t͡ʃ | k | ||
| voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | d͡ʒ | g | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||||
| Tap or Flap | ɾ | ɽ | ||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | ɭ | j | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| High | i | iː | u | uː | ||
| Mid | e | eː | o | oː | ||
| Low | a | aː | ||||
References
- ↑ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Eastern Muria". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/east2340.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Western Muria". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/west2408.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Far Western Muria". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/farw1235.
- ↑ Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003). The Dravidian languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 25. https://archive.org/details/dravidianlanguag00kris.
- ↑ Matthew, Thomas; Matthew, Rincy (2013). "Far Western Muria (Gaita Koitor Boli) Phonology Summary". SIL International. http://www-01.sil.org/silepubs/Pubs/928474552380/LCDD_21_Mathew_Far_West_Muria_Phonology_Summary%20.pdf.
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