Turi language

Turi
Native to India
Region Jharkhand
Ethnicity 350,000 (2007)[1]
Native speakers
 2,000  (2007)[1]
Austroasiatic

  • Munda

    • North Munda
      • Kherwari
        • Santhali
          • Turi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 trd
Glottolog turi1246[2]

Turi is an endangered Munda language of India that is closely related to Santali. It is spoken by only half a percent of ethnic Turi, the rest having shifted to Sadri in Jharkhand, Mundari in West Bengal, and Oriya in Orissa.

Distribution

Osada (1991) lists the following locations where Turi is spoken.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Turi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Turi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.