Kui language (India)

Kui
Region	India
Ethnicity	Khonds, Dal, Sitha Kandha
Native speakers	920,000 (2001 census)[1]
Language family	Dravidian South-Central Gondi–Kui Kuvi–Kui Kui
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kxu
Glottolog	kuii1252[2]

Kui (also Kandh, Khondi, Khond, Khondo, Kanda, Kodu (Kōdu), Kodulu, Kuinga (Kūinga), Kuy) is a South-Central-Dravidian language spoken by the Khonds. It is mostly spoken in Odisha, and written in the Odia script. With 641,662 registered native speakers, it figures at rank 29 in the 1991 Indian census. The Kui language was also referred to as the Kalinga language during the historical period.

Distinct but closely related are the Gondi, Konda and Kuvi languages.

Phonology

Consonants^[3]

		Labial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɳ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	ʈ		k
	voiced	b	d	ɖ		ɡ
Approximant	central	ʋ ~ b			j
	lateral		l
Fricative			ɳ		(ç ?)		h
Flap			ɾ	ɽ

References

1. Kui at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kui (India)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-511-06037-3.

External links

• Kui basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database