Lambadi

Not to be confused with Banjar language.
Lambadi
Banjari
Native to India
Ethnicity Lambadies, Banjara, Gormati
Native speakers
 6 million (2004)[1]
Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi.[2]
Official status
Official language in
 No official status
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lmn
Glottolog lamb1269[3]

Banjari, or Lambadi, also called Goar-boali is a language spoken by nomadic Banjara people across India and it belongs to Indo-Aryan group of languages. The language does not have a native script.[4]

The language is known by various other names, including Lamani, Lamadi, Lambani, Labhani, Lambara, Lavani, Lemadi, Lumadale, Labhani Muka and variants, Banjara, Banjari, Bangala, Banjori, Banjuri, Brinjari, and variants, Gohar-Herkeri, Goola, Gurmarti, Gormati, Kora, Singali, Sugali, Sukali, Tanda.

Regional dialects are divided between the Banjara of Maharashtra (written in Devanagari), Karnataka (written in the Kannada script) and Telangana (written in the Telugu script). Speakers are bilingual in either Telugu, Kannada, or Marathi. but there will be more influence of regional language on lambadi language

References

  1. ↑ Lambadi at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lambadi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Naik, Dhansing B. (2000). The Art and Literature of Banjara Lambanis: A Socio-cultural Study. New Delhi: Abhinav Prakashan. p. 10. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
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