The Gataq language, also known as is a language

Language

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 spoken by the Didayi people of India

India

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Classification

The Gataq language belongs to the South Munda subgroup of the Munda

Munda languages

-Anderson :Gregory Anderson's 1999 proposal is as follows. Individual languages are highlighted in italics.*North Munda **Korku**Kherwarian***Santhali***Mundari*South Munda **Kharia–Juang***Juang***Kharia...

 branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family

Austro-Asiatic languages

The Austro-Asiatic languages, in recent classifications synonymous with Mon–Khmer, are a large language family of Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India and Bangladesh. The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for "south" and "Asia", hence "South Asia"...

. Within South Munda, Gataq is generally considered to be the first branch off a node that also subsumes the Remo

Bonda language

The Bonda language, also known as Bondo or Remo, is a language spoken by the Bonda people of India.-Classification:The Bonda language belongs to the Southern subgroup of the Munda branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family. It is most closely related to the Gutob language.-External links:*...

 and Gutob

Gutob language

The Gutob or Bodo Gadaba language is a Munda language of India, with the greatest concentrations of speakers being found in Koraput district of Orissa and Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. It is also known simply as the Gadaba language, but it is different from the Dravidian Gadaba language...

 languages; this subgroup of South Munda is known as Gutob–Remo–Gataq.

Professor Emeritus Norman Zide

Norman Zide

Norman H. Zide is the Professor Emeritus of the Department of South Asian Languages & Civilization the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He taught Hindi and Urdu there for four decades and published several books and articles on the subject...

writes, "The Gta? (Didayi) language is a phonologically and morphologically divergent branch of the Gutob–Remo–Gta? (GRG) branch of South Munda."

External links

• Online Dictionary (Chatterji)

Online Dictionary (Mahapatra)

Toshiki Osada’s Munda Site (with information on Gta’, Gutob, Ho, Mundari)