Kolami language

Kolami
Spoken in	India
Native speakers	115,000  (1997)
Language family	Dravidian Central Kolami–Parji Kolami–Naiki Kolami
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kfb

Kolami is a tribal Central Dravidian language used in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra states of India. It takes route from the central branch of Dravidian Language tree and falls under Kolami–Paraji group of languages.

G V Ramesh, MLE Linguist for the Rajiv Vidya Mission in Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad has been working for multilingual education since November 2003. Through the Andhra Pradesh government, he has been involved in the development of textbooks for classes 1-5 written in the Kolami language, and, with Mark Penny, Computer Linguistic Consultant, SIL, has been developing dictionaries in Kolami tribal language for the Multilingual Education Programme in Andhra Pradesh. In the tribal area of Utnoor, the Rajiv Vidya Mission (Sarva Siksha Abhiyan) has implemented Mother Tongue based Multilingual Education Program in the primary schools of Kolami.