Gadaba (Kondekor) language

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The Gadaba (Kondekor) language is a lesser-known Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Gadaba tribal community in parts of eastern India, especially in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gadaba (Kondekor) language canonical 1
Gadaba language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
natural language
alternateName Kondekor
Kondekore
Mudhili Gadaba
country India
domainOfUse home and community communication
endangered true
ethnicGroup Gadaba tribe
hasAspectDistinction yes
hasCaseMarking yes
hasCaseSystem rich
hasDialects village-based varieties
hasGenderDistinction limited or none
hasLanguageShiftTo Odia
Telugu
hasNounClasses no
hasNumberDistinction singular and plural
hasPostpositions yes
hasTenseDistinction non-past
past
ISO639-3 gau
languageFamily Dravidian languages
lexicalBorrowingFrom Hindi
Odia
Telugu
linguisticTypology head-final
morphologyType agglutinative
primaryStates Andhra Pradesh
Odisha
linked to: Orissa
region eastern India
relatedTo Gondi language
Kui language
Ollari language
script Latin script
Odia script
spokenBy Gadaba people
linked to: Gadaba tribe
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh
India
Odisha
linked to: Orissa
status minority language
vulnerable language
subfamily South-Central Dravidian languages
usedBy indigenous community
usedIn folk songs
oral tradition
rituals
wordOrder SOV

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Central Dravidian languages includes Gadaba (Kondekor) language
Parji–Gadaba languages hasMember Gadaba language
linked to: Gadaba (Kondekor) language