Kurmali dialect

Kurmali
कुर्माली, कुरमाली, কুরমালী
Panchpargania
Native to India, Bangladesh
Region Jharkhand and surrounding states
Native speakers
 310,000 (1997)[1]
Census results conflate some speakers with Bengali and Hindi.
Devanagari, Bengali
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
kyw – Kurmali
tdb – Panchpargania
Glottolog kudm1238  Kudmali[2]
panc1246  Panchpargania[3]

Kurmali (Devanagari: कुर्माली or कुरमाली kur(a)mālī), or Kudmali, is one of many dialect variants of Hindi which is spoken in Jharkhand, India.[1] Kurmali is generally linked to the Kudumi Mahato (also known as Kurmi, Mahanta or Mohanta) community of Jharkhand, Odisha & West Bengal. Kudmali is also spoken by the Kudumi people of Assam, and was brought to the tea gardens from Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal. The Jharkhand intellectuals claim that Kurmali may be the nearest form of language used in Charyapada.[4] As a trade dialect, it is known as Panchpargania (Devnagari: पंचपरगनिया), for the "five districts" of the region it covers, or Tamaria.

Alternate names

Names for the language include Bedia (from the Bedia caste), Dharua, Khotta, Pan Sawasi, Tanti, Tair, and Chik Baraik.

Kurumali sub dialect of Mayurbhanja state

Kurumali sub dialect of Mayurbhanja state agrees very closely with the Kurmali Thar of Manbhum.[5]

Trade language

Panchpargania is the common language for communication for Bundu, Tamar, Silli, Sonahatu, Arki & Angara blocks of Ranchi district of Jharkhand state.

See also

Bihari languages

References

  1. 1 2 Kurmali at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
    Panchpargania at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kudmali". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Panchpargania". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Jharkhand movement: ethnicity and culture of silence - Sajal Basu - Google Books. Books.google.co.in. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  5. ↑ "Kurumali sub dialect of Mayurbhanja state". Linguistic Survey of India by G A.Grierson.
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