Kolami language

Spoken in

• Dravidian Zentraldravidisch Kolami

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Kfb (Northwest ), nit (South West )

Kolami is a common in central India Dravidian language. It belongs to zentraldravidischen branch of this family of languages ​​, so are their closest relatives Gadaba, Naiki and Parji. Kolami is of 115,000 people in the states of Maharashtra ( Wardha, Kinwat ) and Andhra Pradesh spoken ( Adilabad district ). Most Kolami Speakers are bilingual in the regional majority language Marathi.

Kolami has the language of the illiterate Adivasi tribal population has no scriptural tradition and therefore also no standard version. The language, therefore, is divided into several local dialects. Kolami has been heavily influenced by the neighboring languages: 55 % of the vocabulary is Kolami - Dravidian origin, 35 % are loanwords from Indo-Aryan languages ​​(especially Marathi ), 10% are of unknown origin. Of the Dravidian words in turn derived 30 % from the Telugu. The first records of the language originated in 1937-1938 fieldwork, 1955 for the first time a scientific description of the language was published.