Gondi (Gōndi) is a South-Central Dravidian language, spoken by about two million Gond people, chiefly in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Telangana, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh 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. Gondi has a rich folk literature, examples of which are marriage songs and narrations.
Characteristics
Gondi has a two-gender system, substantives being either masculine or nonmasculine. Gondi departed from the parent Proto-Dravidian language by developing initial voiced stops(g, j, ḍ, d, b) and aspirated stops (dhh, gh, jh, dh, bh).
Dialects
Most of the Gondi dialects are still inadequately recorded and described. The more important dialects are Dorla, Koya, Maria, Muria, and Raj Gond. Some basic phonologic features separate the northwestern dialects from the southeastern. One is the treatment of the original initial s, which is preserved in northern and western Gondi, while farther to the south and east it has been changed to h; in some other dialects it has been lost completely. Other dialectal variations in the Gondi language are the alteration of initial r with initial l and a change of e and o to a.
The govt will extend 100 per cent overseas education scholarships, meet tribal leaders every four months, provide free solar pump sets for tribal farmers, and ...
Hyderabad... It was decided that the government would study and prepare a plan to teach primary education in the Gondi language, and steps would be taken to fill teaching and non-teaching posts in the tribal B Ed colleges in Utnoor and Bhadrachalam ... .
The few times a teacher from Kanker in North Bastar showed up, although a tribal, he would speak in Hindi — a language children didn’t understand. They only knew Gondi.“You never respected our language,” he said ... You don’t respect our Gondi religion.
We are preparing educational materials in 18 local languages and dialects, including Chhattisgarhi, Sargujiha, Halbi, Sadari, Gondi, and Kudukh ... By introducing primary education in these languages in ...
Some scholars propose that the word ‘Telugu' may have originated from tribal languages like Gondi, where ‘telu' means ‘white' and ‘unga' is a plural form, resulting in ‘Telunga,' which could be interpreted as ‘people of fair complexion.' .
<p>Of the BK-16, until Stan Swamy died, the story of Sudha Bharadwaj, who celebrated her sixtieth birthday in jail, was perhaps the best covered by the Indian and international media ...Gondi, Halbi, Koya and other tribal languages took over.
Implementation of Schedule 5 which gives autonomy to tribal areas, creation of jobs in home districts to stop migration, conservation of forest lands, and addition of Gondi and Bheeli languages in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution.
Monika is the daughter of the late Manmohan Shah Batti, former president of the Akhil Bhartiya Gondwana Party (ABGP) ... He wanted the Gondi language to be part of the Constitution, and now I will carry forward his dreams,' Monika said ... .
In an interview to indianexpress.com, Rajamani talks about two such deep tech projects \u2014 ExtremeClassification and Causal Reasoning for LLMs (large language models) ... Some of the languages we work on are Gondi, Mundari and Idu Mishmi.
Vinit Nandanwar believes in second chances ... The results speak for themselves ... Said DC Nandanwar. \u201cI cleared UPSC in my fourth attempt ... During their childhood, these children used to speak only in their native language, like Gondi, Halbi, Dorli.
Vinit Nandanwar believes in second chances ... The results speak for themselves ... Said DC Nandanwar. \u201cI cleared UPSC in my fourth attempt ... During their childhood, these children used to speak only in their native language, like Gondi, Halbi, Dorli ... .
Gadchiroli, 23 June (Hindustan Times) ... After killing a tribal youth, the Naxalites harassed his family to such an extent that they had to leave their home, farm and village and get displaced ... As a result, he can only speak the Gondi-Madia language ... .
CGNet Swara is an online portal that lets Gondi speakers report local news in their language via phone calls.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe have helped out with things like Adivasi radio, which was a hub for accessing the information on the phone in Gondi.
NARAYANPUR, India — The motorbike roared as it strained to carry the ambulance sidecar up a steep river bank ... “My baby will be safer,” she said in Gondi, a language spoken by an estimated 13 million members of the Indigenous Gond community ... ....
TDT News
03 Jan 2023
TDT News
03 Jan 2023