Gondi

Gondi (Gōndi)

Gondi is a Central Dravidian language with about 2 million speakers mainly
in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra
and Chhattishgarh.

Few Gondi speakers are able to write their language and there is no written
literature in Gondi. There is a rich oral tradition though. When written, the
Devanagari or Telugu scripts are generally used for Gondi, while the Gond
script, which was created by Munshi Mangal Singh Masaram of Balaghat district, Madhya
Pradesh in 1928, is little used today.

Gondi alphabet (1928)

This is Munshi Mangal Singh Masaram’s script for Gondi

Gondi script

Gond alphabet (2010)

This is a script for Gondi devised by Professor Prasanna Sree of Andhra
University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Gondi consonants

Gondi vowel diacritics and long consonants

Information provided by Professor Prasanna Sree
of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Link

Information about the Bagatha people and language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondi_language

Details of the Gondi script
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3841.pdf

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