Kudmali language
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Name (Latin)
Kudmali language
Other forms of name
Bedia language
Dharua language
Khotta language
Kurma language
nne Kurmali dialect
Kurmali language
Kurmali Thar language
Kurmik language
Kurni language
Kurumali language
See Also From tracing topical name
Bihari languages
See Also From tracing place name
India
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q6446173
Library of congress:
sh 88004087
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Kuṛamāli gaida paida juṛati, 1983:data from India (Kurmali)
- Māhāto, K. Kurmāli sabdakosha, 1983:pref. (Kurmali is a lingua=franca of Chotonagpur or broadly speaking, of Jharkhand. It is most ancient and mother of other dialectical languages known as Nagpuria, Golwary, Sadani (Sadri), Panch Pargania, Sikhria, Mathuary, Chhattisgari Habli, and Bagheli)
- Māhāto, K. Kuṛamāli sāhityika itihāsa, 198-.
- Māhāta, K. Kuṛmāli bhāshātattva, 1973:data from India (Kurmali language, chiefly spoken in Chota Nagpur, Bihar)
- Ethnologue:p. 251 (Bihari (Behari) Dialects: Kurmali Thar; Magahi)
- Lesser known languages of India & Nepal, 1970:p. 110 (Kurmali, located in Bihar, Singhbhum. (Kurmali Thar, of IA family; Bihari group; alternate names are Kurma, Kurmik, Kurni, Kurumali))
- Ling. Survey India:index, v. 5, pt. 2, p. 146, 147, 327 (Kurmali Thar)
- Ethnologue WWW site, July 30, 2009(Kudmali: language of India; alternate names: Bedia, Dharua, Khotta, Kurmali, Kurumali, Kurmali Thar; classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Eastern zone, Bihari)
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Wikipedia description:
Kurmali or Kudmali (ISO: Kuṛmāli) is an Indo-Aryan language classified as belonging to the Bihari group of languages spoken in eastern India. As a trade dialect, it covers in Jharkhand. Kurmali language is spoken by around 550,000 people mainly in fringe regions of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. There is also a sizeable population speaking Kurmali in the Assam tea valleys. Kurmali is one of the demanded languages for enlisting in Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India.
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