• Source: Turi language

      • Turi is an endangered Munda language of India that is closely related to Mundari. It is spoken by only half a percent of ethnic Turi, the rest having shifted to Sadri in Jharkhand, Mundari in West Bengal, and Odia in Odisha. The Turi are classified as a Scheduled Caste in Jharkhand.


      Distribution


      Osada (1991) lists the following locations where Turi is spoken.

      Jharkhand (pop. 133,137 as of 1981; then part of Bihar)
      Giridih district
      Ranchi district
      Hazaribagh district
      Chhattisgarh
      Raigarh district
      West Bengal (pop. 26,443 as of 1981)
      Odisha (pop. 7,374 as of 1981)


      References



      Konow, Sten. 1906. Tūrī. In Grierson, George A. (ed.), Muṇḍā and Dravidian Languages, 128–134. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing.
      Osada, Toshiki. 1991. Father Ponette's Field Note on Turi with a Comparative Vocabulary. Journal of Asian and African Studies 42. 175–189.

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