Social:Pengo language

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Short description: Dravidian language spoken in India
Pengo
RegionIndia
Native speakers
1,300 (2003)[1]
Dravidian
  • South-Central
    • Gondi–Kui
      • Manda–Pengo
        • Pengo
Language codes
ISO 639-3peg
Glottologpeng1244[2]

Pengo[3] is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken in Nabarangpur district of Odisha by the Pengo Poraja people. Most speakers are fluent in Odia.

Phonology

Vowels[1]
Front Central Back
short long short long short long
High i u
Mid e o
Low a


Consonants[1]
Labial Dental Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ɳ   ŋ  
Plosive voiceless p t ʈ c k  
voiced b d ɖ ɟ ɡ  
Fricative voiceless   s       h
voiced   z        
Approximant central ʋ     j    
lateral   l        
Tap   ɾ ɽ      

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 56. ISBN 9780511060373. 
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Pengo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/peng1244. 
  3. also Pengu; Hengo; Hengo Poraja; Jani; Muddali; Paraja; Pango; Pengua

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