Lambadi | |
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Banjari | |
Native to | India |
Ethnicity | Lambadies, Banjara, Gormati |
Native speakers
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6 million (2004) Census results conflate some speakers with Hindi. |
Indo-European
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Official status | |
Official language in
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No official status |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | lamb1269 |
Lambadi or Goar-boali, also called Banjari, is a language spoken by the once nomadic Banjara people across India and it belongs to Indo-Aryan group of languages. The language does not have a native script.
The language is known by various other names, including Lamani, Lamadi, Lambani, Labhani, Lambara, Lavani, Lemadi, Lumadale, Labhani Muka and variants, Banjara, Banjari, Bangala, Banjori, Banjuri, Brinjari, and variants, Gohar-Herkeri, Goola, Gurmarti, Gormati, Kora, Singali, Sugali, Sukali, Tanda.
Regional dialects are divided between the Banjara of Maharashtra (written in Devanagari), Karnataka (written in the Kannada script) and Telangana (written in the Telugu script). Speakers are bilingual in either Telugu, Kannada, or Marathi.