Turi is an endangered Munda language of India that is closely related to Mundari. It is spoken by only half a percent of ethnic Turi, the rest having shifted to Sadri in Jharkhand, Mundari in West Bengal, and Odia in Odisha. The Turi are classified as a Scheduled Caste in Jharkhand.[2]

Distribution

Osada (1991) lists the following locations where Turi is spoken.[3]

• Jharkhand (pop. 133,137 as of 1981; then part of Bihar)
  • Giridih district
  • Ranchi district
  • Hazaribagh district
• Chhattisgarh
  • Raigarh district
• West Bengal (pop. 26,443 as of 1981)
• Odisha (pop. 7,374 as of 1981)

References

• Konow, Sten. 1906. Tūrī. In Grierson, George A. (ed.), Muṇḍā and Dravidian Languages, 128-134. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing.
• Osada, Toshiki. 1991. Father Ponette's Field Note on Turi with a Comparative Vocabulary. Journal of Asian and African Studies 42. 175-189.

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