Sundargadi Odia

Odia dialect of India
Sundargadi Odia
Northwestern Odia
ସୁନ୍ଦରଗଡ଼ୀ
Native toIndia
RegionOdisha (Sundergarh)
EthnicityOdias
Language family
Indo-European
  • Indo-Iranian
    • Indo-Aryan
      • Eastern
        • Odia
          • Sundargadi Odia
Writing system
Odia
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolognort2659  Northwestern Oriya
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Sundargadi Odia (Odia: ସୁନ୍ଦରଗଡ଼ୀ ଓଡ଼ିଆ) or Northwestern Odia is a dialect of the Odia language spoken in the Sundergarh district and parts of adjoining districts of Odisha. It is also spoken in the nearby districts of Jashpur of Chhattisgarh and Simdega of Jharkhand.[1]

Characteristics

The Sundargadi variety is influenced by Sambalpuri to the south along with influences from the Sadri and Chhattisgarhi languages due to the geographical location of the Northwestern region of Odisha bordering the adjoining linguistic regions of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. The features of the variety are as follows(Sundargadi following Standard Odia):[1]

  • Word Final Vowel Deletion (Schwa deletion)

Eg.- In this Genitive case, ଲୋକର (lokara) - ଲୋକର୍ (lokar)

  • Some phonetic shifts- 'o' to 'a', 'l' to 'n', medial 'ḍa' to 'ṛa'

Eg.- to me- ମୋତେ (mote) - ମତେ (mate), he had got- ପାଇଲେ (pāile) - ପାଇନେ (pāine), did- କଲି (kali) - କନିଁ (kanĩ), great- ବଡ (ḍa) - ବଡ଼ (baṛa)

  • case variations

Dative- 'ki' instead of 'ku', what- କାହିଁକି (kāhĩki)

Locative- 'ra' instead of 're', in answer- ଜବାବର (jabābra), in the forest- ବଣର (baṇara)

Genitive (Pronoun)- your- ତୋର (tora) - ତୋହୋର୍ (tohor)

References

  1. ^ a b "LSI Vol-5 part-2". dsal. p. 403.

Further reading

  • Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Northwestern Oriya". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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