Turi

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A language of India

ISO 639-3
trd
User Population

2,000 (2007). Ethnic population: 354,000 (2007).

Location

Chhattisgarh state: Raigarh district, and scattered throughout; Jharkhand state: Gumla, Lohardaga, and Ranchi districts, Chotanagpur area; Odisha state: Sambalpur and Sundargarh districts; West Bengal state: Bankura, Birbhum, Murshidabad, and Nadia districts.

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Language Status

8a (Moribund).

Classification
Austro-Asiatic, Munda, North Munda, Kherwari, Santali
Language Use

Shifted to Sadri [sck].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Turi
Other Comments

A Scheduled Caste. Speak Sadri [sck] as L1 in Jharkhand, Mundari [unr] in West Bengal, Odia [ory] in Odisha (Singh and Manoharan 1993). Turi spoken only in Chotanagpur (Breton 1997). A Turi caste in Gujarat is not related linguistically.