Naiki | |
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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 | ||||
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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 | |||
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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