Madiya or Maria is a Dravidian language spoken in India. It may be regarded as a dialect of Gondi, but is suspected to be mutually unintelligible with most other Gondi varieties.[2]
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Native to | India |
Native speakers | 365,000 (2000)[1] |
Language family | Dravidian
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Writing system | Devanagari |
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ISO 639-3 | Either:mrr – Garhchiroli Mariadaq – Dandami Maria |
Glottolog | mari1414 Mariadand1238 Dandami Maria |
Phonology of Abhuj Maria:[2]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Stop | voiceless | p | t | ʈ | k | |
voiced | b | d | ɖ | g | ||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | ||||
voiced | d͡ʒ | |||||
Fricative | s | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
Approximant | w | l | ɽ | j | ||
Trill | r |
Hill Maria has 3 additional consonants: a glottal stop /ʔ/, a retroflex nasal /ɳ/, and a uvular fricative /ʁ/.[2]
In 2019, a former professor published the first book in the Madiya language.[3]
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Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant) |
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