Gondi proper is the most widely spoken language, with over 10 million speakers. This dictionary has 3,500 original Gondi words.The aim is to create a typeface for the language and an app as well in the future.
The young men and women return after a day's patrolling to dance and sing in their own Gondi language. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Recent changes. Archive 2006-08-01 Gondi (Gōndi) is spoken by the Gondi people.It is a South-Central-Dravidian language, spoken by about two million people [1] – chiefly in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattishgarh and in various adjoining areas of neighbouring states. There is a rich oral tradition though. Gondi language, one of the Dravidian languages of India. Gondi: 1 n a Dravidian language spoken by the Gond in south central India Type of: South-Central Dravidian a Dravidian language spoken primarily in south central India Although it is the language of the Gond people, only one fifth of Gonds can speak the language, making it vulnerable to extinction. The language has a two-gender system, substantives being either masculine or nonmasculine. Edit category data. In the early 21st century it was spoken by about 2.7 million people, mostly Gonds. It is not a written language and as such has no well-attested history before European The Gondi languages are a subgroup of the indigenous family that includes Gondi and related languages. Oldest pages ordered by last edit No pages meet these criteria. Desc: Gondi is a South-Central Dravidian language, spoken by about two million Gondi people, chiefly in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Telangana, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and in various adjoining areas of neighbouring states. Although it is the language of the Gond people, only about half of them still speak it. Nonetheless, only half of these Gondi men speak their language in contemporary times. Gondi language is spoken, for the most part, by the members of the Gond tribe, but census figures also include languages similar to Gondi, and spoken by tribes who live in the same areas as the Gonds, like Madia, Muria, Dorli and Ganda; these languages are deemed to be part of the Gondi group of languages.
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Gondi language is usually written in the Devanagari or Telugu scripts, but these mainstream writing systems neither convey an entirely accurate sense of how to pronounce Gondi words nor give the Gonds a sense of their collective identity — especially in India, where a language community without its own script is generally given less respect.