Manna-Dora | |
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Native to | India |
Region | Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu |
Ethnicity | 30,000 (no date) |
Native speakers | 18,000 (2011) |
Language family | Dravidian
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Writing system | Telugu alphabet |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mju |
Glottolog | mann1245 |
Manna-Dora is either a nearly extinct Dravidian language closely related to Telugu, or a dialect of Telugu. It is spoken by the eponymous Scheduled Tribe in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
References
- ^ Manna-Dora at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Zvelebil (1990), p. 57.
- "List of notified Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Census India. pp. 21–22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
Sources
- Zvelebil, Kamil (1990), Dravidian Linguistics: An Introduction, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, ISBN 978-81-8545-201-2
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