Kuvi (IPA:[kuʋi]) is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. The language is one of two spoken by the Kandhas, with the other being the closely related and more dominant Kui language. According to the 2011 Indian census, there are around 155,000 speakers. The orthography is the Odia script. The grammatical structure of this language is comparable to other similar languages such as Kui which all fall under the classification of a Dravidian language.
Etymology
Background information
According to a study regarding population structure of tribal populations in central India, information was collected from the Koraput district of Odisha about the Kuvi Kandhas. There were 325,144 people in the district according to the 1971 census. The Kuvi Kandhas are agriculturalists, and their physical appearance is similar to other Kandha groups.[2]
Phonology
Within a study done by A.G. Fitzgerald and F. V. P. Schulze, they spent some time interrogating Kuvi speakers in Araku in Andhra Pradesh. Their information came from a village called Sunkarametta. They also went to Gudari to study the Kuttiya dialect of Kui, and found a Kuvi speaker. It was found that the speakers location influenced their speech. The Kuvi speaker described himself as a Parja Kandha, so some of his dialect is abbreviated by P, while the dialect studied at Araku was indicated by Su. The following vowels and consonants are necessary for the language.[3]
Grammar
Todas las lenguas dravídicas centrales están unificadas en cuanto a las distinciones de género y número. Existe la distinción entre masculino y no masculino (o femenino y no humano) tanto en singular como en plural. Existe un tiempo negativo simple que consta de la raíz del verbo + sufijo negativo + terminación personal presente en todas las lenguas dravídicas. [ 6 ]
El idioma kuvi también contiene un tiempo pasado negativo con la estructura: verbo base + sufijo negativo + sufijo de pasado + terminación personal.
Tiempo pasado
tiempo presente
Véase también
Referencias
- ↑ "Sitio web del Censo de la India : Oficina del Registrador General y Comisionado del Censo, India" . www.censusindia.gov.in . Consultado el 5 de julio de 2018 .
- ↑ DAS, K., MALHOTRA, K., MUKHERJEE, B., WALTER, H., MAJUMDER, P., & PAPIHA, S. (1996). Estructura poblacional y diferenciación genética entre 16 poblaciones tribales del centro de la India. Human Biology , 68 (5), 679-705.
- ↑ BURROW, T., & BHATTACHARYA, S. (1963). NOTAS SOBRE KUVI CON UN VOCABULARIO BREVE. Indo-Iranian Journal , 6(3/4), 231-289.
- ↑ Krishnamurti ( 2003) , págs.72
- ↑ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). Las lenguas dravídicas ( ed. nula). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pág. 56. ISBN 978-0-511-06037-3.
- ↑ Krishnamurti, B. (2005). MB Emeneau, 1904-2005. Journal of the American Oriental Society , 125 (4), 481-497.
- 1 2 Schulze, FVP (1911). Una gramática de la lengua kuvi, con abundantes ejemplos . Madrás. pág. 12.
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Lecturas adicionales
- Burrow, T. (1943). Estudios Dravídicos III. Boletín de la Escuela de Estudios Orientales y Africanos, Universidad de Londres, 11 (1), 122-139. Recuperado de https://www.jstor.org/stable/609208
- Dravidian languages
- Endangered languages of India
- Languages of Odisha
- Languages of Andhra Pradesh