Ollari language

Spoken in

• Dravidian Zentraldravidisch Gadaba

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Dra ( other Dravidian languages ​​)

District

Gadaba (also Konekor - Gadaba, Poya and Ollari ) is a common in central India Dravidian language. It belongs to zentraldravidischen branch of this family of languages ​​, so are his closest relatives Kolami, Naiki and Parji. Gadaba is spoken by 10,000 people in a contiguous area on the border of the states of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. The Gadaba speakers themselves call their language as koṇekor or mundli. They belong to the Adivasi tribal population. A part of the tribe speaks, however, the unrelated Munda language Gotub - Gadaba, which is often also referred to as Gadaba and is not sufficiently distinguished from Konekor - Gadaba ( such as in the Indian census ).

Gabada has the language of the illiterate tribal population has no scriptural tradition and therefore also no standard version. The first scientific description of the language dates from the year 1957 ( S. Bhattacharya: Ollari: A Dravidian Speech, Delhi 1957). In this work, the language as well as in some other publications is referred to as Ollari. Ollari and Konekor Gadaba but are now regarded as two variants of the same language.