| Naiki | |
|---|---|
| Southeastern Kolami | |
| కొలామి | |
| Native to | India |
Native speakers | (10,000 cited 1989)[1] 1,500 speakers (2007) |
Dravidian
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| Dialects |
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| Devanagari, Telugu script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nit |
| Glottolog | sout1549 |
| ELP | Southeastern Kolami |
Naiki, or Southeastern Kolami, is a tribal Central Dravidian language used in Maharashtra state of India. Dialects are Naiki proper, or Chanda, and Naikṛi (Krishnamurti 2003:57)
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| High | i | iː | u | uː | ||
| Mid | e | eː | o | oː | ||
| Low | a | aː | ||||
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | plain | p | t, ts | ʈ | tʃ | k | |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | ʈʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | |||
| voiced | plain | b | d, dz | ɖ | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| aspirated | bʱ | dʱ | ɖʱ | dʒʱ | ɡʱ | |||
| Fricative | v | s | h | |||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||||
| Approximant | l | ɭ | j | |||||
References
- ^ Naiki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Krishnamurti (2003), pp. 72
