Pengo language

Pengo
Region	India
Native speakers	350,000 (2000)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian South-Central Gondi–Kui Manda–Pengo Pengo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`peg`
Glottolog	`peng1244`^[2]

Pengo^[3] is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken in Odisha. Most speakers are fluent in Oriya.

Phonology

Consonants^[4]
		Labial	Dental	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɳ		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	ʈ	c	k
Plosive	voiced	b	d	ɖ	ɟ	ɡ
Fricative	voiceless		ɳ				h
Fricative	voiced		z
Approximant	central	ʋ			j
Approximant	lateral		l	m
Tap			ɾ	ɽ

↑ Pengo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pengo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ also Pengu; Hengo; Hengo Poraja; Jani; Muddali; Paraja; Pango; Pengua
↑ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780511060373.

Southern

Kannada-Badaga	Badaga Holiya Kannada Urali

Kodagu	Kodava Kurumba

Malayalam languages	Aranadan Jeseri Kadar Malapandaram Malaryan Malavedan Malayalam Mullu Kurumba Paliyan Paniya Ravula

Tamil languages	Betta Kurumba Eravallan Irula Kaikadi Kanikkaran Muthuvan Tamil Yerukala

Toda-Kota	Kota Toda

Sholaga

Macro-Tulu

unclassified

South-Central

Central

North

Unclassified

Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant)

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