Kolava
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Kolami (, Northwestern Kolami/Southeastern Kolami) is a tribal Central Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Telangana states of India. It falls under the Kolami–Naiki group of languages. It is the most widely spoken Central Dravidian language.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Kolami
- Language.nativename
- ,
- Language.altname
- Kolāmi
- Language.imagealt
- ''
- Language.imagecaption
- '
- Language.states
- India
- Language.region
- Maharashtra, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh
- Language.ethnicity
- 239,583 Kolam (2011 census)
- Language.speakers
- 128,451, 54% of ethnic population
- Language.date
- 2011 census
- Language.familycolor
- Dravidian
- Language.fam2
- Central
- Language.fam3
- Kolami–Naiki
- Language.script
- Devanagari Telugu script Goykanadi
- Language.glotto
- nort2699
- Language.glottorefname
- Northwestern Kolami Kolam
- Language.ld1
- Northwestern Kolami
- Language.lc1
- kfb
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- India
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- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- indigenous to
- Madhya Pradesh
- writing system
- Devanagari
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Classification
- Writing systems
- Numbers
- First ten numbers
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Present tense
- Characteristics
- Phonology
- Sample Text
- English
- Kolami
- Romanisation
- References
- Further reading
Kolami (, Northwestern Kolami/Southeastern Kolami) is a tribal Central Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Telangana states of India. It falls under the Kolami–Naiki group of languages. It is the most widely spoken Central Dravidian language.
==Etymology==
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