- Maria language (India)
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This article is about the Maria language spoken in India. For the Maria language spoken in Papua New Guinea, see Maria language (Papua New Guinea). For other uses of the word Maria, see Maria (disambiguation).
Maria Spoken in India Native speakers 165,000[1] (no date) Language family Dravidian- Central
- Telugu–Kui
- Gondi–Kui
- Gondi
- Maria
- Gondi
- Gondi–Kui
- Telugu–Kui
Language codes ISO 639-3 mrr Maria is a Dravidian language spoken in India by approximately 165,000 people.[1]
Classification
The 14th (2000) edition of Ethnologue classified Abujmaria as a distinct language, and gave it the SIL code ABJ. In the 15th (2005) edition, Abujmaria is classified as a dialect of Maria.
References
Dravidian languages Southern South-Central Central North Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant) Categories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
- Agglutinative languages
- Dravidian languages
- Languages of India
- Dravidian language stubs
- Central
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