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Peer reviewedKrishnamurti, BH. – Language Variation and Change, 1998
Gondi, a Dravidian language spoken by 2.2 million people in central India, is a chain of dialects, some of which are not mutually intelligible. This study looked at a two-step sound change, responsible for this dialect division. (ER)
Descriptors: Dialects, Dravidian Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
