| Gataq | |
|---|---|
| Gta | |
| Spoken in | India |
| Native speakers | 3,055 (1991 census) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gaq |
The Gataq language, also known as Gataʔ, Getaq, Getaʔ, Gtaʔ, Gata, Gta Asa, Didei, Didayi, or Dire, is a language spoken by the Didayi people of India.
The Gataq language belongs to the South Munda subgroup of the Munda branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family.[1] Within South Munda, Gataq is generally considered to be the first branch off a node that also subsumes the Remo and Gutob languages; this subgroup of South Munda is known as Gutob–Remo–Gataq.
Professor Emeritus Norman Zide writes, "The Gta? (Didayi) language is a phonologically and morphologically divergent branch of the Gutob–Remo–Gta? (GRG) branch of South Munda."
Online Gtaʔ Dictionary (Mahapatra)
Toshiki Osada’s Munda Site (with information on Gta’, Gutob, Ho, Mundari)