Madiya or Maria is a

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

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. It may be regarded as a dialect of Gondi, but is suspected to be

mutually unintelligible In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as a ...

with most other Gondi varieties.

Phonology

Phonology of Abhuj Maria: Hill Maria has 3 additional consonants: a glottal stop /ʔ/, a retroflex nasal /ɳ/, and a uvular fricative /ʁ/. In 2019, a former professor published the first book in the Madiya language.

References

Agglutinative languages Dravidian languages Languages of India {{Dr-lang-stub sv:Gond#Dialekter