Konda language (Dravidian)

Konda
Konda
కొండ
Pronunciation	IPA: [koɳɖa]
Region	India
Ethnicity	Konda-Dora
Native speakers	60,699 (2011 census)
Language family	Dravidian South-Central Gondi–Kui Dora Konda; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kfc
Glottolog	kond1295
ELP	Konda-Dora

Konda, also known as Konda-Dora, is one of the Dravidian languages spoken in India. It is spoken by the scheduled tribe of the Konda-Dora who mostly live in the districts of Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, and East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh, Koraput district in Odisha and Assam. It is sometimes written in Telugu script and Odia Script. Some text books have been developed for schools up to 5th standard.^[2]

A unique writing system was developed by Sathupati Prasanna Sree for use with the language.^[3]

Phonology[]

Vowels^[4]
	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
High	i	iː			u	uː
Mid	e	eː			o	oː
Low			a	aː

Consonants^[4]
		Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Retroflex	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɳ	ŋ
Stop	voiceless	p	t̪	ʈ	k	ʔ
Stop	voiced	b	d̪	ɖ	ɡ
Fricative	voiceless		s			(h)
Fricative	voiced		z
Tap			ɾ	ɽ
Trill	voiceless		r̥
Trill	voiced		r
Approximant	central	w			j
Approximant	lateral		l	ɭ

Proto Dravidian <ẓ r t̠ t̠t̠ n̠t̠> became /ɽ ɾ r r̥ nr/ in Konda.^[4]
/ʔ r̥ ɳ ŋ/ do not occur words initially. Voiceless and voiced sibilants and trills /s z r̥ r/ pattern with stops. In consonant clusters /ʔ/ is never the first member and /r̥/ is never the second member of a consonant cluster.^[4]

References[]

^ "Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
^ The dying tongues of Telangana and Andhra - Times of India
^ "Konda-Dora". Omniglot. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-511-06037-3.

External links[]

Konda basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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[1] "Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 5 July 2018.

[2] The dying tongues of Telangana and Andhra - Times of India

[3] "Konda-Dora". Omniglot. Retrieved 11 November 2017.

[1a-4] Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-511-06037-3.

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