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| Gataq | ||
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| Spoken in: | India | |
| Total speakers: | 3,055 (1991 census) | |
| Language family: | Austro-Asiatic Munda South Munda Koraput Munda Gataq |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | gaq | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Gataq language, also known as Gataʔ, Getaq, Getaʔ, Gtaʔ, Gata, Gta Asa, Didei, Didayi, or Dire, is a language spoken by the Didayi people of India.
Classification
The Gataq language belongs to the South Munda subgroup of the Munda branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family.1 Within South Munda, Gataq is generally considered to be the first branch off a node that also subsumes the Remo and Gutob languages; this subgroup of South Munda is known as Gutob-Remo-Gataq.
Professor Emeritus Norman Zide writes, "The Gta? (Didayi) language is a phonologically and morphologically divergent branch of the Gutob-Remo-Gta? (GRG) branch of South Munda."
References
External links
Online Gtaʔ Dictionary (Mahapatra)
Toshiki Osada’s Munda Site (with information on Gta’, Gutob, Ho, Mundari)
