Madiya language

Not to be confused with another Dravidian language, Muria language.
Maria
Madiya
Native toIndia
Native speakers
365,000 (2000)[1]
Dravidian
Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
mrr – Garhchiroli Maria
daq – Dandami Maria
Glottologmari1414  Maria
dand1238  Dandami Maria

Madiya or Maria is a Dravidian language spoken in India. It may be regarded as a dialect of Gondi, but is suspected to be mutually unintelligible with most other Gondi varieties.[2]

  1. ^ Garhchiroli Maria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Dandami Maria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003). The Dravidian languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 25. ISBN 9780521771115.