Lambani | |
Nativename: | ಲಂಬಾಣಿ |
Also Known As: | Lambadi, Lamani, Banjari |
States: | India |
Ethnicity: | Banjara |
Speakers: | 4,857,819 |
Date: | 2011 census |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | Indo-European |
Fam2: | Indo-Iranian |
Fam3: | Indo-Aryan |
Fam4: | Western |
Fam5: | Rajasthani |
Iso3: | lmn |
Glotto: | lamb1269 |
Glottorefname: | Lambadi |
Map: | Lang Status 80-VU.svg |
Person: | Gor |
People: | Gor Banjara |
Language: | Lambani |
Lambadi, Lambani, Lamani or Banjari is a Western Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Banjara people across India. The language does not have a native script.[2]
Regional dialects are divided between the Banjara of Maharashtra (written in Devanagari), Karnataka (written in the Kannada script), Tamil Nadu (written in the Tamil script) and Andhra Pradesh, Telangana (written in the Telugu script). Speakers are bilingual in either Telugu, Kannada, or Marathi.