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Manna-Dora language

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Manna-Dora
Native toIndia
RegionAndhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
Ethnicity30,000 (no date)[1]
Native speakers
18,000 (2011)[1]
Telugu alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3mju
Glottologmann1245

Manna-Dora is either a nearly extinct Dravidian language closely related to Telugu, or a dialect of Telugu.[1] It is spoken by the eponymous Scheduled Tribe in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.[3]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Manna-Dora at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Zvelebil (1990), p. 57.
  3. "List of notified Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Census India. pp. 21–22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.

Sources

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  • Zvelebil, Kamil (1990), Dravidian Linguistics: An Introduction, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, ISBN 978-81-8545-201-2