Maria language (India)

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Maria
Spoken in: India
Total speakers: 134,000
Language family: Dravidian
 South-Central
  Gondi-Kui
   Gondi
    Maria
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: dra
ISO 639-3: mrr

Maria is a Dravidian language spoken in India.

[edit] Classification

The 14th (2000) edition of Ethnologue classified Abujmaria as a distinct language, and gave it the SIL code ABJ. In the 15th (2005) edition, Abujmaria is classified as a dialect of Maria.