Sadri, Oraon
A language of Bangladesh
| Population | 166,000 (2000). |
| Region | Throughout Rajshahi Division; Sylhet Division, Moulvibazar and Habiganj districts; Khulna Division, Jhenaidah District (Jhenaidah Subdistrict, Moheshpur Subdistrict), Kushtia District (Mirpur Subdistrict), Magura District (Magura Subdistrict). |
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Bangladesh Bangladesh |
| Dialects | Borail Sadri, Nurpur Sadri, Uchai Sadri, Mokkan Tila Sadri. Dialects may need separate literature. Inherent intelligibility of 7 Sadri varieties on Borail ranges from 70%–93%; of 8 varieties on Nurpur from 78%–94%. Lexical similarity: of 14 Sadri varieties with the Borail Sadri dialect ranges from 88%–97%. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Eastern zone, Bihari |
| Language use | Vigorous but some educated people do not use Oraon with their children. Bangladesh Oraon Foundation has committed to language revitalization. Low proficiency in Bengali [ben]. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 30%. NT: 2003. |
| Writing system | Bengali script. Latin script. |
| Comments | The Oraon people came from India over 100 years ago. Sometime in the past some Oraon shifted from Kurux [kru], a Dravidian language, to Sadri, which is Indo-Aryan. Some Oraon people still speak Kurux. Agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Hindu. |
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