Muria is a

Dravidian language The Dravidian languages (or sometimes Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan. Since the colonial era, there have been small but significant i ...

spoken in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. Three varieties have mutual intelligibility. It is sometimes confused with the

Madiya language 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 In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in ...

. It is suspected to be mutually unintelligible with northern Gondi dialects.

Phonology

Muria has 10 vowels and 21 consonants.

References

Agglutinative languages Dravidian languages Languages of India {{Dr-lang-stub