Muria language

Muria
Native to India
Native speakers
 1.0 million (2000–2007)[1]
Dravidian

  • South-Central

Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
emu – Eastern Muria
mut – Western Muria
fmu – Far Western Muria (Gaita Koitor)
Glottolog east2340  Eastern[2]
west2408  Western[3]
farw1235  Far Western[4]

Muria is a Dravidian language spoken in India. Three varieties have minimal intelligibility. It shares its name with Maria language. It is suspected to be mutually unintelligible with northern Gondi dialects.[5]

References

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


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