Turi language

Turi
Turi
Native to	India
Region	Jharkhand
Ethnicity	350,000 (2007)
Native speakers	2,000 (2007)
Language family	Austroasiatic Munda North Munda Kherwari Santhali Turi; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	trd
Glottolog	turi1246
ELP	Turi

Turi is an endangered Munda language of India that is closely related to Santali. It is spoken by only half a percent of ethnic Turi, the rest having shifted to Sadri in Jharkhand, Mundari in West Bengal, and Oriya in Orissa.

Distribution

Osada (1991) lists the following locations where Turi is spoken.

Jharkhand (pop. 133,137 as of 1981; then part of Bihar)

Madhya Pradesh
- Raigarh district
- Chhattisgarh district

West Bengal (pop. 26,443 as of 1981)
Orissa (pop. 7,374 as of 1981)

References

^ ^a ^b Turi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Konow, Sten. 1906. Tūrī. In Grierson, George A. (ed.), Muṇḍā and Dravidian Languages, 128-134. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing.
Osada, Toshiki. 1991. Father Ponette's Field Note on Turi with a Comparative Vocabulary. Journal of Asian and African Studies 42. 175-189.

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