Madiya language

Not to be confused with another Dravidian language, Muria language.

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]

Maria
Madiya
Native to	India
Native speakers	(365,000 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Dravidian South-Central Gondi–Kui Gondi languages Maria
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: mrr – Garhchiroli Maria daq – Dandami Maria
Glottolog	mari1414  Maria dand1238  Dandami Maria

Phonology

Phonology of Abhuj Maria:^[2]

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	ʈ		k
	voiced	b	d	ɖ		g
Affricate	voiceless				t͡ʃ
	voiced				d͡ʒ
Fricative			s
Nasal		m	n		ɲ
Approximant		w	l	ɽ	j
Trill			r

Hill Maria has 3 additional consonants: a glottal stop /ʔ/, a retroflex nasal /ɳ/, and a uvular fricative /ʁ/.^[2]

In 2019, a former professor published the first book in the Madiya language.^[3]

References

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.
3. "First book on Madiya language released in city". 9 July 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2023-07-04.