Kolami (Northwestern Kolami) is a
tribal
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...
Central Dravidian language
The Dravidian languages (or sometimes Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan. Since the colonial era, there have been small but significant ...
spoken in
Maharashtra and
Telangana
Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India with a geographical area of and ...
states of India. It falls under the Kolami–Naiki group of languages. It is the most widely spoken Central Dravidian language.
Sathupati Prasanna Sree
Sathupati Prasanna Sree (born 2 September 1964) is an Indian linguist.
Career
Sree is Professor of English and Chairperson of the Board of Studies at Andhra University.
Throughout her career Sree has worked in preserving minority tribal langua ...
has developed a unique script for use with the language.
Phonology
References
Agglutinative languages
Dravidian languages
Languages of Andhra Pradesh
Endangered languages of India
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