Lambadi
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.
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), Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (written in the Telugu script). Speakers are bilingual in either Telugu, Kannada, or Marathi.
References
Bibliography
- Boopathy, S. Investigation & report in: Chockalingam, K., Languages of Tamil Nadu: Lambadi: An Indo-Aryan Dialect (Census of India 1961. Tamil Nadu. Volume ix)
- Trail, Ronald L. 1968. The Grammar of Lamani.
- Davis, Irvine (1970). The Grammar of Lamani (PDF). SIL International.