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The communities in India are linguistically diverse. They speak not only the scheduled but also non-scheduled languages and dialects. The people of India linguistically are divided into different language families, such as Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, Tibeto-Berman & Andamanese. The present study about the Korku language belongs to Austro-Asiatic language family, mainly spoken by the Korku tribes of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The word Korku means simply men or tribesmen, koru being their term for a man and ku a plural termination (Russel and Hiralal, 1916). Thus the word Korku means people. The word Korku is the plural of kr, which is identified with Mundari hr, Santali ha (man) (Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India, Vol-IV). It is a Western most language of this group i.e., there is no other Munda language spoken to its west in India. It is spoken in the vast area of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
In the Ramayana they are called rakshas (demos). Guptas were the one who ruled Korku people first, later Rajputs, Mauryas, Rastrakutas, Vakatakas, Mughals and Britishers also had ruled them in different stages of time. After 12th Century Korkus were ruled by Gond Rajas (cf. Stephen Fuch, The Korkus of the Vindhya Hills).
Since Eighteenth Century European Scholars have taken note of this language. Voysey published a vocabulary of this language in 1844 A.D. Dalton published an account of Korku People in 1872 in his Ethnology of Bengal. Drake wrote a grammar (probably for the first time) in 1903. Linguistic Survey of India (1906) has a very brief skeleton on this language. In 1914, Ramsey published a vocabulary of this language, and later in 1940 a Korku Hindi English dictionary. In the early sixties of this century Zide worked on this language (under the so-called Munda project). Almost at the same time Bhattacharya collected materials on this language from several points, which he used in his various articles and a monograph (1975). Also a recent study on Korku language by K.S. Nagaraja is worth praise. Korku described by Nagaraja is from Maharashtra and there are gaps in his description.
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In 1906 for the first time Wilhelm Schmidt discovered the Austro-Asiatic family. Korku language is concluded under Austro-Asiatic language family. Austro-Asiatic language family is divided into two groups, i.e Mon-Khmer and Munda group. Again Munda group is divided into two sub-groups, i.e., South Munda group and North Munda group. Korku language is considered as a language of North-Munda group.
Austro-Asiatic Munda North Munda Korku MuwasiIn 1975 S. Bhattacharya provided a classification based mainly on his own fieldwork on different Munda languages. He identified ten independent Munda Languages and six important dialects. These languages are grouped into two branches and sub grouped further. This classification is graphically represented in the following.
Korku language is mainly spoken in a vast area of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Korku inhabitants are found in Nimar, Betul, Khandwa, Berar, Hoshangabad, Chhindwara and also in small numbers in Indore, Dewas and Bhopal districts of Madhya Pradesh and in Amravati, Akola, Wardha, Yeotmal and Chanda districts of Maharashtra. It has only one dialect named as Muwasi, which is spoken in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. Grierson states Nahali dialect of Nimar is now a mixed form of speech and it has some connection with Korku. It does not differ much from general Korku. Due to the influence of Hindi and Marathi, most of the Korku speakers are bilingual and also a large number of vocabularies of Hindi and Marathi are found in this language. A few Korku speakers are also found in other states like Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Punjab etc.
Korku is a language of North-Munda group of Austro-Asiatic family. Thus, it exhibits many common features with other Austro-Asiatic languages, like, three way number system (Singular, Dual and Plural) with animate and inanimate distinction. Except kinship terms gender is not marked for nouns. In case of numerals it has vigesimal system of counting like other Munda languages. The use of affixes makes this language an inflectional language. Suffixes also are more grammatical, such as the marker /-ten-/ is used for both instrumental and ablative case inflection as well as formation of adverbs too. Basic sentence word order is Subject-Object-Verb (SOV). Only Past vs. Non-Past tense distinction have been found in Korku.
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| Height of the tongue | Position of the tongue | Front | Central | Back |
| Lip position | Unrounded | Unrounded | Rounded | |
| High | ||||
| Lower High | i | u | ||
| Mid | e | o | ||
| Lower Mid | E | O | ||
| Low | a |
| Manner of articulation | Place of articulation | ||||
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| Stops vl.unasp. vl. asp. vd.unasp vd. asp. | p p b b | t t d d | c c j j | k k g g | |
| Nasals | m | n | |||
| Fricatives | s | h | |||
| Trills | r | ||||
| Flap | |||||
| Laterals | l | ||||
| Frictionless Continuants | w | y |
There are 10 vowels in Korku. All the vowels are voiced and have been described below with their allophones, if any.
// Higher-mid central unrounded voiced vowel Initially- /m/ you (sg), /naj/ crops, /yom/ motherMedially- /bdra/ cloud, /a ghma/ rainFinally- data is not available/a / Low central unrounded short voiced vowelInitially- /aa/ food, /ao/ true, /ari/ happiness, /an/ good Medially- /rao/ night, / jao/ religion, /laba/ lieFinally- /ya/ day, /ola/ south, /bnsoba / uglyOpen vowels of particular syllables as occurred in the language contained the vowels are largely closed syllables./e/ Mid front unrounded voicedInitially- /ea/ again Medially- /nnc/ open, /nene / cut (animate), /beni/ foot standFinally- /ambe/ mango, /sge/ bring, /be/ get (up)/ stand up/E/ Mid front unrounded voiced long vowelInitially- /Ena/ mirrorMedially- /kEci/ scissors, /bEra/ deaf, /pEsa/ money Finally-data is not available// High front unrounded short vowel.This vowel occurs in all the positions. Illustrative examples are: -Initially- /lajo/ treatment, Medially- /gj/ sleep, /som/ thread, /ki/ field, /cca/ tamarindFinally- /na/ barber, /sknmni/ perfume, /ni/ sweetFont size:
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