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Lodhi
Sabar, Sabara
Native to India
Region Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand
Ethnicity Lodha
Native speakers
139,000 (2011) [1]
22% of ethnic population
Austroasiatic
  • Munda
    • South
      • Sora-Gorum
        • Lodhi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lbm
Glottolog lodh1246

Lodhi (Lodi, Lohi, Lozi) is a Munda language, or dialect cluster, of India. Kharia Thar is only spoken by one quarter of ethnic Lodhi in Orissa. However, while admitting that Lodhi is related to Sora, a Munda language, Ethnologue classifies it as Indic ( Bengali–Assamese), and it is considered a variety of Hindi in the Indian census. It may be that there are both Munda and Indic varieties subsumed under the name Lodhi.[ citation needed]

However, Anderson (2008:299) suggests that Lodhi (Lodha) of northern Orissa may be an endangered Munda language; some members use the autonym Sabar or Sabara.

Locations

Lodhi is spoken in:

References

  1. ^ Lodhi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon

Sources

  • Anderson, Gregory D.S (ed). 2008. The Munda languages. Routledge Language Family Series 3.New York: Routledge. ISBN  0-415-32890-X.