Korku language
| Korku | |
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| Region | Central India (Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra) |
Native speakers | 570,000 (2001 census)[1] |
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Austroasiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kfq |
The Korku language is the language of the Korku tribe of central India. It belongs to the Kolarian or Munda family, isolated in the midst of a Dravidian (Gondi) population. The Korkus are also closely associated with the Nihali people, many of whom have traditionally lived in special quarters of Korku villages.[2] Korku is spoken by approximately 478,000 people, mainly in four districts of southern Madhya Pradesh (Khandwa, Harda, Betul, Hoshangabad) and three districts of northern Maharashtra (Rajura and Korpana tahsils of Chandrapur district, Manikgarh pahad area near Gadchandur in Chandrapur district) (Amravati, Buldana, Akola). Korku is spoken in a declining number of villages and is gradually being replaced by Hindi.
Nouns may have either one of the three genders: masculine, feminine, or neuter. Adjectives are placed before the nouns they qualify.
References
- ↑ Korku reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Ethnologue report on the Nihali language
Further reading
- Nagaraja, K. S. (1999). Korku language: grammar, texts, and vocabulary. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
- Zide, N. H. (1963). Korku noun morphology. [Chicago: South Asian Languages Program, University of Chicago.
- Zide, N. H. (1960). Korku verb morphology. [S.l: s.n.
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