Lodhi language
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Lodhi | |
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Native to | India |
Region | Orissa, West Bengal, Jharkand |
Native speakers | 25,000 (2007)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | lbm |
Lodhi (Lodi, Lohi, Lozi) is a Munda language, or perhaps dialect cluster, of India that has been strongly influenced by neighboring Eastern Indic languages.
Ethnologue notes high levels of lexical similarity (50–75%) with Oriya, Bengali, and Kharia Thar, and that it is only spoken by one quarter of ethnic Lodhi in Orissa. However, while admitting that Lodhi is related to Sora, a Munda language, Ethnologue classifies it as Indic (Bengali–Assamese), and it is considered a variety of Hindi in the Indian census. It may be that there are both Munda and Indic varieties subsumed under the name Lodhi.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ Lodhi reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
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