Madiya language

Maria
Madiya
Native to India
Native speakers
ca. 360,000 (2000)[1]
Dravidian
  • South-Central

Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
mrr  Garhchiroli Maria
daq  Dandami Maria
Glottolog mari1414  Maria[2]
dand1238  Dandami Maria[3]

Madiya or Maria is a Dravidian language spoken in India. It may be regarded as a dialect of Gondi, but is suspected to be mutually unintelligible with most other Gondi varieties.[4]

References

  1. Garhchiroli Maria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Dandami Maria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Maria". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dandami Maria". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003). The Dravidian languages. Oxford University Press. p. 25.
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