Muria language
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| Muria | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
Native speakers | 15,864 (2011 census)[1] |
Dravidian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:emu – Eastern Muriamut – Western Muriafmu – Far Western Muria (Gaita Koitor) |
| Glottolog | east2340 Easternwest2408 Westernfarw1235 Far Western |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Muria (IPA: [murija]) is a Dravidian language spoken in India. Three varieties have mutual intelligibility.[citation needed] It is sometimes confused with the Madiya language. It is suspected to be mutually unintelligible with northern Gondi dialects.[2]
Phonology
[edit | edit source]Muria has 10 vowels and 21 consonants.[3]
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Stop | voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | t͡ʃ | k | ||
| voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | d͡ʒ | g | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||||
| Tap or Flap | ɾ | ɽ | ||||||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | ɭ | j | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| High | i | iː | u | uː | ||
| Mid | e | eː | o | oː | ||
| Low | a | aː | ||||
References
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