Thakri dialect

Thakri, or Thakuri is a dialect of Marathi[1] spoken by about 100,000 people[2] of the Adivasi community in Raigad district, Maharashtra, India. It has traces of a non-Marathi substratum.[3] It is classified as a part of the Maharashtrian Konkani group of dialects according to ISO 639.[4]

References

  1. Rahman, Tariq (2004). Language and education: selected documents, 1780-2003. Quaid-i-Azam University. p. 461. ISBN 9789698329082.
  2. Bright, William (1992). International encyclopedia of linguistics. Oxford University Press. p. 53. ISBN 9780195051964.
  3. Indian Linguistics. Linguistic Society of India. 30 (2): 76. 1969. ISSN 0378-0759. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=knn


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