Manna-Dora language

Manna-Dora
Native to India
Region Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
Ethnicity 30,000 (no date)[1]
Dravidian
  • South-Central

Language codes
ISO 639-3 mju
Glottolog mann1245[2]

Manna-Dora is either a nearly extinct Dravidian language closely related to Telugu, or a dialect of Telugu. It is spoken by the eponymous Scheduled Tribe in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.[3]

References

  1. Manna-Dora language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Manna-Dora". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. "List of notified Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Census India. pp. 21–22. Retrieved 15 December 2013.


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