Turi language

Turi is an endangered Munda language of India that is closely related to Mundari. It is spoken by only half a percent of ethnic Turi, the rest having shifted to Sadri in Jharkhand, Mundari in West Bengal, and Odia in Odisha. The Turi are classified as a Scheduled Caste in Jharkhand.

Turi
Native toIndia
RegionJharkhand
Ethnicity198,344 Turi (2011 census)[1]
Native speakers
2,000 (2007)[2]
Austroasiatic
  • Munda
    • North
      • Kherwarian
        • Mundaric
          • Turi
Language codes
ISO 639-3trd
Glottologturi1246
ELPTuri[3]

Distribution

Osada (1991) lists the following locations where Turi is spoken.[4]

References

  1. "Census of India". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  2. Turi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Endangered Languages Project data for Turi.
  4. Ramu, G.N. (1 January 1991). "Changing Family Structure and Fertility Patterns: An Indian Case". Journal of Asian and African Studies. 26 (3–4): 189–206. doi:10.1177/002190969102600302. ISSN 0021-9096.
  • Konow, Sten. 1906. Tūrī. In Grierson, George A. (ed.), Muṇḍā and Dravidian Languages, 128-134. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing.
  • Osada, Toshiki. 1991. Father Ponette's Field Note on Turi with a Comparative Vocabulary. Journal of Asian and African Studies 42. 175-189.


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