Dravidian Languages of India
A noted linguist B Ramakrishna Reddy from Telangana has received Padma Shri award for protecting languages such as Kuvi, Kui and Manda for decades.
Kuvi Language
- Kuvi is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken in 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.
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