Gorum language
| Parengi | |
|---|---|
| Gorum | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Orissa, Andhra Pradesh |
| Ethnicity | 12,600 in Orissa (2001 census)[1] |
Native speakers | possibly extinct (1997)[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
pcj |
| Glottolog |
pare1266[3] |
Gorum, or Parengi, is a minor Munda language of India. Speakers are shifting to Oriya.
Names
The name Gorum most likely comes from an animal/people prefix go- and root -rum meaning 'people', and is possibly related to the ethnonym Remo (Anderson 2008:381).
Parengi, or Parenga, is of obscure origin.
Distribution
Gorum speakers are located in the following areas of eastern India (Anderson 2008:381).
- Koraput district, Odisha: the former Nandapur and Pottangi taluks
- Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh: Munchingput block
Gutob is spoken to the north of Gorum, and Gta to the west of Gorum.
References
- ↑ Parenga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Parengi at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Parenga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Anderson, Gregory D.S (ed). 2008. The Munda languages. Routledge Language Family Series 3.New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-32890-X.
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