Madiya language

Not to be confused with another Dravidian language, Muria language.

Madiya or Maria is a Dravidian language spoken in India. It may be regarded as a dialect of Gondi, but is suspected to be mutually unintelligible with most other Gondi varieties.^[2]

Maria
Madiya
Native to	India
Native speakers	(365,000 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Dravidian South-Central Gondi–Kui Gondi languages Maria
Writing system	Devanagari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: mrr – Garhchiroli Maria daq – Dandami Maria
Glottolog	mari1414  Maria dand1238  Dandami Maria

Phonology

Phonology of Abhuj Maria:^[2]

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	ʈ		k
	voiced	b	d	ɖ		g
Affricate	voiceless				t͡ʃ
	voiced				d͡ʒ
Fricative			s
Nasal		m	n		ɲ
Approximant		w	l	ɽ	j
Trill			r

Hill Maria has 3 additional consonants: a glottal stop /ʔ/, a retroflex nasal /ɳ/, and a uvular fricative /ʁ/.^[2]

In 2019, a former professor published the first book in the Madiya language.^[3]