Gondi
(ˈgɒndiː)
[Hind., f. Gond.]
The native (Dravidian) language of the Gonds.
The native name is koiyáṇ.
| 1855 S. Hislop in G. Smith S. Hislop (1888) 168 Inquired about the Gondi. 1875 R. Caldwell Gram. Dravidian Langs. (ed. 2) 513 A translation of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark into Gôndi by the Rev. J. Dawson. 1888 G. Smith S. Hislop iii. 62 Gondi was the tongue of the aborigines in the uplands. 1967 D. S. Parlett Short Dict. Lang. 52 Gondi (Dravidian), 2 m speakers scattered over Gondwana region, now giving way to Hindi. 1970 Encycl. Brit. X. 568/2 The majority of Gonds speak various, and in part mutually unintelligible, dialects of Gondi, an unwritten Dravidian language. |