Lodhi language

Lodhi
Sabar, Sabara
ସାବାର
Native to	India
Region	Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand
Ethnicity	Lodha
Native speakers	139,000 (2011)[1] 22% of ethnic population
Language family	Austroasiatic Munda South Sora-Gorum Lodhi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lbm
Glottolog	lodh1246

Lodhi (Lodi, Lohi, Lozi) is a Munda language, or dialect cluster, of India. Kharia Thar is only spoken by one quarter of ethnic Lodhi in Orissa. However, while admitting that Lodhi is related to Sora, a Munda language, Ethnologue classifies it as Indic (Bengali–Assamese), and it is considered a variety of Hindi in the Indian census. It may be that there are both Munda and Indic varieties subsumed under the name Lodhi.^{[citation needed]}

However, Anderson (2008:299) suggests that Lodhi (Lodha) of northern Orissa may be an endangered Munda language; some members use the autonym Sabar or Sabara.

Locations

Lodhi is spoken in:

• Morada and Suliapada, Sadar subdivision, Mayurbhanj district, Odisha
• Sora block, Balasore district, Odisha
• Binpur and Kharagpur-I blocks in West Medinipur district, West Bengal
• Jharkhand (along the West Bengal border)

References

1. Lodhi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

Sources

• Anderson, Gregory D.S (ed). 2008. The Munda languages. Routledge Language Family Series 3.New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-32890-X.