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Language code: gon

Technical information about ISO 639 language code gon

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The table below provides technical details for the Gondi language, designated by the gon code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

gon

Name

Gondi

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Northern GondiSouthern GondiAheri GondiMadiya (Maria/Abujhmaria)Muria
Related languages
KoyaKondaKolamiNaikiPardhan
Key facts
Belongs to the South-Central branch of the Dravidian familyWritten in several scripts, including Devanagari, Telugu, Masaram Gondi and the recently-revived Gunjala Gondi LipiFewer than half of the Gond people now speak it natively, so it is considered endangeredThe oldest known Gondi manuscript dates to the 18th century but was first deciphered only in the 21st centuryIts lexicon contains many loan-words from neighbouring Indo-Aryan languages such as Marathi and Hindi.
Sample phrase

जोहार, नी साका?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Gondi language, identified by the code gon, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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