Juang

Primary tabs

Juango, Patra-Saara, Patua, Puttooas

ଜୁଆଙ୍‌‎ (Juang)

30,400 (2011 census). No monolinguals.

Odisha state: north Angul, east Dhenkanal, south Keonjhar districts.

Language Maps

5* (Developing).

Keonjhar-Pal. Not closely related to other languages. Lexical similarity: 20%–22% with Kharia [khr].

Positive attitudes. Some also use Odia [ory], especially men and educated. Also use English [eng].

Literacy rate in L2: 21% (2001 census). Dictionary. Texts. NT: 2016.

Oriya (Odia) script [Orya].

Traditional religion.