Social:Duruwa language
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Short description: Dravidian language spoken in India
| Dhurwa | |
|---|---|
| ପରଜି, धुरवा Parji | |
| Native to | India |
| Ethnicity | Duruwa |
Native speakers | 52,349 (2011 census)[1] |
Dravidian
| |
| Odia script, Devanagari script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pci |
| Glottolog | duru1236[2] |
Duruwa (Odia: ପରଜି, Devanagari: धुरवा) or Dhurwa or Parji is a Central Dravidian language spoken by the Duruwa people of India , in the districts of Koraput in Odisha and Bastar in Chhattisgarh. The language is related to Ollari and Kolami, which is also spoken by other neighbouring tribes.
Classification
Duruwa is a member of the Central Dravidian languages.[3][4] Duruwa is a spoken language and is generally not written. Whenever it is written, it makes use of the Devanagari script in Bastar district and Odia script in Koraput district.
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| High | i | iː | u | uː | ||
| Mid | e | eː | o | oː | ||
| Low | a | aː | ||||
| Labial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | ʈ | c | k | |
| voiced | b | d | ɖ | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | (s) | (h) | |||||
| Approximant | central | ʋ | j | ||||
| lateral | l | ||||||
| Tap | ɾ | ɽ | |||||
Dialects
There are four dialects: Tiriya, Nethanar, Dharba, and Kukanar. They are mutually intelligible.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ "Census of India Website : 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). "Duruwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/duru1236.
- ↑ Fairservis, Walter Ashlin (1997). The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing: A Model for the Decipherment of the Indus Script. Asian Studies. Brill Academic Publishers. p. 78. ISBN 978-90-04-09066-8.
- ↑ Stassen, Leon (1997). Intransitive Predication. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory. Oxford University Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-19-925893-2.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 57. ISBN 9780511060373.
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