Manna-Dora language

Manna-Dora
Manna-Dora
Native to	India
Region	Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
Ethnicity	30,000 (no date)
Native speakers	18,000 (2011)
Language family	Dravidian Southern Southern II Teluguic Manna-Dora; ; ; ;
Writing system	Telugu alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mju
Glottolog	mann1245

Last updated July 12, 2025

Manna-Dora is either a nearly extinct Dravidian language closely related to Telugu, or a dialect of Telugu.^[1] It is spoken by the eponymous Scheduled Tribe in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.^[3]

References

1 2 3 Manna-Dora at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ Zvelebil (1990), p. 57.
↑ "List of notified Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Census India. pp. 21–22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.

Sources

Zvelebil, Kamil (1990), Dravidian Linguistics: An Introduction, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, ISBN 978-81-8545-201-2

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[e25-1] 1 2 3 Manna-Dora at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[FOOTNOTEZvelebil199057-2] Zvelebil (1990), p. 57.

[3] "List of notified Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Census India. pp. 21–22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.

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