Lodhi language

Lodhi
Lodhi
Sabar, Sabara
Native to	India
Region	Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand
Native speakers	25,000 (2007); 22% of ethnic population
Language family	Austroasiatic Munda South Sora-Gorum Lodhi; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lbm
Glottolog	lodh1246

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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[edit]

Lodhi is spoken in:

Morada and Suliapada, Sadar subdivision, Mayurbhanj district, Odisha
Sora block, Balasore district, Odisha
Binpur and Kharagpur-I blocks in West Medinipur district, West Bengal
Jharkhand (along the West Bengal border)

References[edit]

↑ Lodhi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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

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[e18-1] Lodhi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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