Korku language

Korku
Korku
कोरकू
Region	Central India (Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra)
Ethnicity	Korku
Native speakers	730,000 (2011 census)
Language family	Austroasiatic Munda North Korku; ; ;
Writing system	Devanagari script (Balbodh style)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kfq
Glottolog	kork1243
ELP	Korku
	Korku is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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Distribution of the Munda languages in India, with Korku the leftmost in central India

Korku (also known as Kurku, or Muwasi^[3]) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Korku tribe of central India, in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. It is isolated in the midst of the Gondi people, who are Dravidian, while its closest relatives are in eastern India. It is the westernmost Austroasiatic language.

Korkus are also closely associated with the Nihali people, many of whom have traditionally lived in special quarters of Korku villages.^[4] Korku is spoken by around 700,000 people, mainly in four districts of southern Madhya Pradesh (Khandwa, Harda, Betul, Narmadapuram) and three districts of northern Maharashtra (Rajura and Korpana tahsils of Chandrapur district, Manikgarh pahad area near Gadchandur in Chandrapur district) (Amravati, Buldana, Akola).

The name Korku comes from Koro-ku (-ku is the animate plural), Koro 'person, member of the Korku community' (Zide 2008).^[5]

^ Korku at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Sebeok, Thomas Albert, ed. (1971). Current Trends in Linguistics. Walter de Gruyter. p. 425. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014.
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^ Nihali at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Cust, R. N. "Grammatical Note and Vocabulary of the Language of the Kor-ku, a Kolarian Tribe in Central India." The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. no. 2 (1884): 164 - 179. JSTOR 25196986

[e25-1] Korku at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[:0-2] Sebeok, Thomas Albert, ed. (1971). Current Trends in Linguistics. Walter de Gruyter. p. 425. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014.

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[4] Nihali at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[5] Cust, R. N. "Grammatical Note and Vocabulary of the Language of the Kor-ku, a Kolarian Tribe in Central India." The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. no. 2 (1884): 164 - 179. JSTOR 25196986

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