Malto language

E400184

Malto is a Dravidian tribal language spoken primarily by the Malto (Paharia) people in eastern India, known for its close relationship to Kurukh and its endangered status.

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Label Occurrences
Malto language canonical 5

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
endangered language
natural language
tribal language
closelyRelatedTo Kurukh
surface form: Kurukh language
endangermentStatus definitely endangered
vulnerable
family Dravidian languages
hasAlternativeName Malto
Paharia
Rajmahal Paharia
Paharia
surface form: Sauria Paharia
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasCulturalAssociation Malto traditional religion
oral folklore and songs
hasEthnolinguisticGroup Mal Paharia
surface form: Kumarbhag Paharia

Mal Paharia
Paharia
surface form: Sauria Paharia
hasLanguageCodeISO639-3 mjt
hasLinguisticFeature inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural
postpositions
rich case system
verb-final syntax
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
hasScriptStatus primarily oral
recognizedAs scheduled tribe language in India
sharesSubgroupWith Kurukh
surface form: Kurukh language
spokenBy Malto people
Paharia people
spokenInCountry India
spokenInRegion eastern India
spokenInState Assam
Bihar
Chhattisgarh
Jharkhand
Orissa
surface form: Odisha

West Bengal
subfamily North Dravidian languages
surface form: Northern Dravidian languages
subjectToLanguageShiftTowards Bengali
Hindi
regional Indo-Aryan languages
usedInDomain community life
home
oral tradition
writingSystem Bengali script
Devanagari script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kurukh closelyRelatedTo Malto language
North Dravidian languages hasMember Malto language
Proto-North Dravidian hasDescendant Malto language
Malto people language Malto language