Maria, Dandami
A language of India
| Population | 200,000 (2000). |
| Region | Chhattisgarh, Bastar, Dantewara districts; Maharashtra, Garhichiroli District. |
| Alternate names | Bastar Koya, Bison Horn Maria, Maria Gond, Madiya, Dhuru, Dandami Madiya |
| Dialects | Those in Geedam and Bailadila have 95%-98% mutual intelligibility, 81% of the Sukma variety, but 18%-21% of Maria [mrr], 18%-45% of Muria in Sukma understood the Geedam variety at 81% or lower; those in Bailadila understood Sukma at 92%. May be more than 1 language. A separate language from Northern Gondi [gno], Southern Gondi [ggo], Maria of Garhchiroli, and Koya [kff]. |
| Classification | Dravidian, South-Central, Gondi-Kui, Gondi |
| Language use | All ages. |
| Language development | Literacy program in progress. Grammar. |
| Writing system | Devanagari script. |
| Comments | A Scheduled Tribe. Speakers are called ‘Maria’. Swidden agriculturalists; peasant agriculturalists; hunter-gatherers. Hindu, traditional religion. |
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