Gataq language

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Gataq
Gta
Region India
Native speakers 3,055  (1991 census)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gaq

The Gataq language, also known as Gataʔ, Getaq, Getaʔ, Gtaʔ, Gata, Gta Asa, Didei, Didayi, or Dire, is a language spoken by the Didayi people of India.

Classification [edit]

The Gataq language belongs to the South Munda subgroup of the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic language family.[1] Within South Munda, Gataq is generally considered to be the first branch off a node that also subsumes the Remo and Gutob languages; this subgroup of South Munda is known as Gutob–Remo–Gataq.

Professor Emeritus Norman Zide writes, "The Gta? (Didayi) language is a phonologically and morphologically divergent branch of the Gutob–Remo–Gta? (GRG) branch of South Munda."

References [edit]

External links [edit]


Online Gtaʔ Dictionary (Mahapatra)
Toshiki Osada’s Munda Site (with information on Gta’, Gutob, Ho, Mundari)