Pardhan language

Pardhan
Native to India
Native speakers
 140,000  (2007)[1]
Dravidian

  • South-Central

    • Gondi–Kui
      • Gondi
        • Pardhan
Indic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pch
Glottolog pard1245[2]

Pardhan (or Pradhan) is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken in India, mostly in Andhra Pradesh, Adilbad District; Madhya Pradesh, Seoni, Mandla, Chhindawara, Hoshangabad, Betul, Balaghat, Jabalpur districts; Chhattisgarh, Raipur, Bilaspur districts; Maharashtra, Bhandara, Garhchiroli, Nagpur, Wardha, and Yavatmal districts. It is written in the Indic alphabet. Approximately 117,000 people speak this language. It is ranked 1101 in Ethnologue's ranking system.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Pardhan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pardhan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Ethnologue report for language code:pch