Pengo language

Pengo
Region India
Native speakers
 350,000  (2000)[1]
Dravidian

  • South-Central

    • Gondi–Kui
      • Manda–Pengo
        • Pengo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 peg
Glottolog peng1244[2]

Pengo[3] is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken in Odisha. Most speakers are fluent in Oriya.

Phonology

Consonants[4]
  Labial Dental Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal mnɳ ŋ 
Plosive voiceless ptʈck 
voiced bdɖɟɡ 
Fricative voiceless  s   h
voiced  z    
Approximant central ʋ  j  
lateral  lɭ   
Tap  ɾɽ   

References

  1. ↑ Pengo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pengo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ also Pengu; Hengo; Hengo Poraja; Jani; Muddali; Paraja; Pango; Pengua
  4. ↑ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780511060373.

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