Duruwa language

Duruwa
दुरुवा
Spoken in	India
Native speakers	80,000  (2002)
Language family	Dravidian Central Dravidian Kolami–Parji Parji–Gadaba Duruwa
Writing system	Devanagari script, Oriya script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pci

Duruwa language (Devanagari:दुरुवा ), also called, Parji is a Central Dravidian language spoken by the ‘Dhurwa’ tribe, a Scheduled tribe people of India, in the districts of Koraput and Bastar in Chhattisgarh State. The language is related to Ollari and Kolami which is also spoken by the other tribes in the neighbouring regions.

Classification

Duruwa is a member of the Central Dravidian languages.^[1][2] Duruwa is a spoken language and generally not written, whenever it is written it makes use Devanagari script in Bastar district and Oriya script in Koraput district

Phonology

Consonants^[3]

		Labial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	ʈ	c	k
	voiced	b	d	ɖ	ɟ	g
Fricative			(s)				(h)
Nasal		m	n	ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
Approximant	central	ʋ			j
	lateral		l
Tap			ɾ	ɽ

Dialects

There are four dialects namely

• Tiriya
• Nethanar
• Dharba
• Kukanar

References

1. ^ Fairservis, Walter Ashlin (1997). The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing: A Model for the Decipherment of the Indus Script. Asian Studies. Brill Academic Publishers. p. 78. ISBN 978-9004090668. 
2. ^ Stassen, Leon (1997). Intransitive Predication. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory. Oxford University Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0199258932. 
3. ^ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• ethnologue.com Duruwa