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Korku language
| Korku | |
|---|---|
| कोरकू | |
| Region | Central India (Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra) |
| Ethnicity | Korku |
Native speakers | 730,000 (2011 census)[1] |
Austroasiatic
| |
| Devanagari script (Balbodh style)[2] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kfq |
| Glottolog | kork1243 |
| ELP | Korku |
 Korku is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Korku (also known as Kurku, or Muwasi[3]) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Korku people of central India, in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. It is isolated in the midst of the Gondi people, who are Dravidian, while its closest relatives are in eastern India. It is the westernmost Austroasiatic language.
Korkus are also closely associated with the Nihali people, many of whom have traditionally lived in special quarters of Korku villages.[4] Korku is spoken by around 700,000 people, mainly in four districts of southern Madhya Pradesh (Khandwa, Harda, Betul, Narmadapuram) and three districts of northern Maharashtra (Rajura and Korpana tahsils of Chandrapur district, Manikgarh pahad area near Gadchandur in Chandrapur district) (Amravati, Buldana, Akola).
The name Korku comes from Koro-ku (-ku is the animate plural), Koro 'person, member of the Korku community' (Zide 2008).[5]
- ^ Korku at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Sebeok, Thomas Albert, ed. (1971). Current Trends in Linguistics. Walter de Gruyter. p. 425. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:2was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Nihali at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Cust, R. N. "Grammatical Note and Vocabulary of the Language of the Kor-ku, a Kolarian Tribe in Central India." The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. no. 2 (1884): 164 - 179. JSTOR 25196986
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