Northern Gondi

E484500

Northern Gondi is a central Dravidian language spoken by the Gondi people in parts of central India, distinct from the Southern Gondi variety.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Northern Gondi canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Dravidian language
Dravidian language
language
closelyRelatedTo Kolami language
linked to: Kolami

Koya language
Naiki language
Southern Gondi
country India
distinctFrom Southern Gondi
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode nort2697
hasAlternativeName Gondi (Northern)
linked to: Gōṇḍī

Northern Gond
hasDialects Adilabad Gondi
Balaghat Gondi
linked to: Adilabad Gondi

Bastar Gondi
Betul Gondi
linked to: Gōṇḍī

Chhindwara Gondi
Gadchiroli Gondi
linked to: Gōṇḍī

Mandla Gondi
hasEthnicity Gond
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate over 2 million
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
hasWritingSystem Devanagari script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Telugu script
ISO639-3Code gno
isPartOf Gondi macrolanguage
linked to: Gondi language
languageBranch Central Dravidian languages
languageFamily Dravidian languages
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
region Gondwana region
linked to: Gondwana
spokenBy Gondi people
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh
Chhattisgarh
India
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Odisha
linked to: Orissa

Telangana
Uttar Pradesh
central India
subclassOf Gondi language
South-Central Dravidian language
usedIn folk songs of Gondi people
oral tradition of Gondi people
storytelling among Gondi communities
wordOrder SOV

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Southern Gondi distinguishedFrom Northern Gondi
Southern Gondi closelyRelatedTo Northern Gondi
Gondi language hasDialects Northern Gondi
Gōṇḍī hasDialect Northern Gondi