| Dhurwa | |
| Nativename: | ପରଜି, धुरुवा Parji |
| States: | India |
| Ethnicity: | Duruwa |
| Speakers: | 52,349 |
| Date: | 2011 census |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Script: | Odia script, Devanagari script |
| Familycolor: | Dravidian |
| Fam2: | Central Dravidian |
| Fam3: | Parji–Gadaba |
| Iso3: | pci |
| Glotto: | duru1236 |
| Glottorefname: | Duruwa |
Duruwa (Odia: ପରଜି, Devanagari: धुरुवा) or Dhuruwa or Parji is a Central Dravidian language spoken by the Duruwa people of India, in the districts of Koraput in Odisha and Bastar in Chhattisgarh. The language is related to Ollari and Kolami, which is also spoken by other neighbouring tribes.
Duruwa is a member of the Central Dravidian languages.[2] [3] Duruwa is a spoken language and is generally not written. Whenever it is written, it makes use of the Devanagari script in Bastar district and Odia script in Koraput district.
| Front | Central | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | ||
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Labial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Fricative | (pronounced as /ink/) | (pronounced as /ink/) | ||||||
| Approximant | central | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Tap | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
There are four dialects: Tiriya, Nethanar, Dharba, and Kukanar. They are mutually intelligible.