Back कुरमाली भाषा ANP اللغة الكورمالية Arabic কুৰ্মালী ভাষা Assamese কুড়মালি ভাষা Bengali/Bangla कुड़माली भाषा Hindi Asụsụ Kurmali IG کورمالی MZN कुडमाली भाषा Nepali କୁଡମାଲି ଭାଷା OR ਕੁਰਮਾਲੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ Punjabi
| Kurmali | |
|---|---|
| Panchpargania | |
| কুড়মালি, কুর্মালী कुड़मालि, कुरमालि କୁଡ଼ମାଲି पंचपरगनिया, পঞ্চপরগনিয়া | |
 ' Kuṛmāli ' written in Chisoi script | |
| Native to | India |
Native speakers | 555,695 (2011 census)[1][a] 619,689 (2001 census)[3] |
| Devanagari, Bengali, Odia, Chisoi[4] | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  India
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:kyw – Kurmali/Kudmalitdb – Panchpargania |
| Glottolog | kudm1238 Kudmalipanc1246 Panchpargania |
 Distribution of Kurmali language in India | |
Kurmali or Kudmali (ISO: Kuṛmāli) is an Indo-Aryan language classified as belonging to the Bihari group of languages spoken in eastern India.[5][6][7] As a trade dialect, it is also known as Panchpargania (Bengali: পঞ্চপরগনিয়া), for the "five parganas" of the region it covers in Jharkhand. Kurmali language is spoken by around 550,000 people mainly in fringe regions of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal, also a sizeable population speak Kurmali in Assam tea valleys.[5] Kurmali is one of the demanded languages for enlisting in Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India.[8]
- ^ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2011" (PDF). www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- ^ Ghosh 2020, pp. 439–501
- ^ "Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues: 2001". censusindia.gov.in. Archived from the original on 15 April 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Proposal to Encode Chisoi in the Universal Character Set" (PDF). unicode.org. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
- ^ a b "Kudmali". Ethnologue. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ Alam, Qaiser Zoha (1996). Language and Literature: Divers Indian Experiences. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. ISBN 978-81-7156-586-3.
- ^ Fayez, S. M., & Rajiv Ranjan Mahto. (2021). A Sociolinguistic Study of Kudmali in Jharkhand. Aligarh Journal of Linguistics, 11(ISSN: 2249-1511), 117–132.
- ^ "Constitutional provisions relating to Eighth Schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
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