Kui language (India)
Kui | |
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Kanda, Kandh, Khond, Khondi, Khondo, Kodu, Kodulu, Kuinga, Kuy | |
କୁଇ | |
Pronunciation | [kuɪ] |
Native to | India |
Region | Odisha |
Ethnicity | Khonds, Dal, Sitha Kandha |
Native speakers | 941,000 (2011 census)[1] |
Dravidian
| |
Odia script Odia Braille | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:uki – Kui (standard)dwk – Dawik Kui |
Glottolog | kuii1252 |
ELP | Kui (India) |
Kui (କୁଇ)(also Kandh, Khondi, Khond, Khondo, Kanda, Kodu (Kōdu), Kodulu, Kuinga (Kūinga), Kuy) is a South-Central
Indian census.[2] The Kui language was also referred to as the Kuinga language during the historical period. It is closely related to the Gondi and Kuvi
languages.
Phonology
Labial | Dental | Retroflex | P.alv
|
Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n
|
ɳ | ||||
Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t
|
ʈ | t͡ʃ | k | |
voiced | b | d
|
ɖ | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||
Approximant | central | ʋ ~ b | j | ||||
lateral | l
|
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Fricative | s | h | |||||
Flap
|
ɾ | ɽ |
Vowels
Kui language has five short vowels and five long vowels.[4] The vowels are illustrated below in IPA.[5]
Front | Central | Back | ||||
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short | long | short | long | short | long | |
High
|
i | iː | u | uː | ||
Mid | e | eː | o | oː | ||
Low
|
a | aː |
References
- ^ Kui (standard) at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
Dawik Kui at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) - ^ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ISBN 978-0-511-06037-3.
- ^ Winfield, W.W. (1928). A grammar of the Kui language. Bibliotheca Indica. Printed at the Baptist mission press, Pub. by the Asiatic society of Bengal. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
- ^ Krishnamurti (2003), p. 70.
- ^ Krishnamurti (2003), pp. 72
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