Kuvi Kondh

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Kuvi Kondh is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kondh (Kandha) tribal communities in parts of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh in eastern India.

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Kuvi Kondh canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
natural language
basicWordOrder SOV
country India
ethnicGroup Kandha
Kondh
hasAlternativeName Kuvi
Kuvi language
hasDialects regional varieties in Andhra Pradesh
regional varieties in Odisha
hasEndangermentConcern language shift to Odia
language shift to Telugu
hasMorphologicalFeature postpositions
rich case system
verbal agglutination
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
ISO639-3 kxv
languageBranch South-Central Dravidian
languageFamily Dravidian
linked to: Dravidian languages
linguisticArea South Asia
region Kalahandi district
Koraput district
Rayagada district
Srikakulam district
relatedTo Gondi language
Kui language
spokenBy Kandha people
Kondh people
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh
Odisha
linked to: Orissa

eastern India
status minority language
subclassOf South-Central Dravidian language
typology agglutinative language
usedBy tribal communities
usedIn folk songs
oral tradition
rituals
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Odia script

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Kuvi hasAlternativeName Kuvi Kondh