Social:Pardhan language

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Short description: Gondi language of India
Pardhan
Native toIndia
Native speakers
140,000 (2007)e25
Dravidian
  • South-Central
    • Gondi–Kui
      • Gondi languages
        • Pardhan
Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3pch
Glottologpard1245[1]

Pardhan (or Pradhan) is a dialect of Gondi spoken by the Pardhan people, a community who are the traditional bards of the Gonds. Its speakers are found in areas where the Gonds live: southeastern Madhya Pradesh, far-eastern Maharashtra and northern Telangana. Approximately 140,000 people speak this dialect.[2][3]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Pardhan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/pard1245. 
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  3. Valte, Thangmualian; Mathai, Eldose K.; George, Symon (2008). "A Sociolinguistic Survey Among the Pardhan Community of Central India". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.559.17.