Sundargadi Odia

Sundargadi Odia
Sundargadi Odia
Northwestern Odia
ସୁନ୍ଦରଗଡ଼ୀ
Native to	India
Region	Odisha (Sundergarh)
Ethnicity	Odias
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Odia Sundargadi Odia; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Odia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	nort2659 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[edit]

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 (lokårå) - ଲୋକର୍ (lokår)

Some phonetic shifts- 'o' to 'å', 'l' to 'n', medial 'ḍ' to 'ṛ'

Eg: to me- ମୋତେ (mote) - ମତେ (måte), he had got- ପାଇଲେ (pāile) - ପାଇନେ (pāine), did- କଲି (kåli) - କନିଁ (kånĩ)

case variations

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

Locative- 'rå' instead of 're', in answer- ଜବାବର (jåbābrå), in the forest- ବଣର (båṇårå)

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

References[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "LSI Vol-5 part-2". dsal. p. 403.

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