| Maria | |
| Also Known As: | Madiya |
| States: | India |
| Speakers: | 365,000 |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Dravidian |
| Fam2: | South-Central |
| Fam3: | Gondi–Kui |
| Fam4: | Gondi languages |
| Script: | Devanagari |
| Lc1: | mrr |
| Ld1: | Garhchiroli Maria |
| Lc2: | daq |
| Ld2: | Dandami Maria |
| Glotto: | mari1414 |
| Glottoname: | Maria |
| Glottorefname: | Maria (India) |
| Glotto2: | dand1238 |
| Glottoname2: | Dandami Maria |
Madiya or Maria is a Dravidian language spoken in India. It may be regarded as a dialect of Gondi, but is suspected to be mutually unintelligible with most other Gondi varieties.[1]
Phonology of Abhuj Maria:
| Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Affricate | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Trill | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
In 2019, a former professor published the first book in the Madiya language.[2]