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Gorum, or Parengi, is a nearly-extinct minor Munda language of India.

Gorum
Parengi
Native to	India
Region	Odisha, Andhra Pradesh
Ethnicity	9,445 in Odisha (2011 census)[1]
Native speakers	20 (2011)[2]
Language family	Austroasiatic Munda South Sora-Gorum Gorum
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pcj
Glottolog	pare1266
ELP	Gorum

Names

The name Gorum most likely comes from an animal/people prefix go- and root -rum meaning 'people', and is possibly related to the ethnonym Remo (Anderson 2008:381).

Parengi, or Parenga, is of obscure origin.

Status

Gorum is 60% endangered, it is very likely that it might soon be extinct majority of the people under 30 years cannot understand the language. In addition those who know it are likely to deny knowing it.[3] This language seems to have been first researched in 1933, that being the earliest scholarly reference.[4]

Origins

While Gorum is a member of the Munda family, it has taken some things from Dravidian, a language spoken nearby. For example, they tend to doubly inflect on certain types of AVC structures. Another derivation from the Munda language is the use of some Glottals being "creaky voiced"[5]

Distribution

Gorum speakers are located in the following areas of eastern India (Anderson 2008:381).

• Koraput district, Odisha: the former Nandapur and Pottangi taluks
• Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh: Munchingput block

Gutob is spoken to the north of Gorum, and Gta to the west of Gorum.

References

• Anderson, Gregory D.S (ed). 2008. The Munda languages. Routledge Language Family Series 3.New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-32890-X.

External links

• Endangered Language Project Database
• World Language Movies
• Opino Gomango on Sora language
• Bibliography on the Gorum language
• Gorum Dictionary

На других языках

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- [en] Gorum language

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[fr] Gorum

Le gorum (ou parenga) est une langue munda, parlée par des Aborigènes essentiellement dans le district de Koraput, dans l'État de l'Orissa. La langue n'est plus parlée que par 6 700 des 12 000 Gorums ethniques. Elle est supplantée par une forme tribale de l'oriya[1].

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