Madiya or Maria is a
Dravidian language
The Dravidian languages are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, primarily in South India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia.
The most commonly spoken Dravidian languages are (i ...
spoken in
India
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. It may be regarded as a dialect of
Gondi, but is suspected to be
mutually unintelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Mutual intellig ...
with most other Gondi varieties.
Phonology
Phonology of Abhuj Maria:
Hill Maria has 3 additional consonants: a glottal stop /ʔ/, a retroflex nasal /ɳ/, and a uvular fricative /ʁ/.
In 2019, a former professor published the first book in the Madiya language.
References
Agglutinative languages
Dravidian languages
Languages of India
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