Sadanic languages

{{Infobox language family

| name = Sadanic

| region = Chota Nagpur plateau

| ethnicity = Sadan peoples

| familycolor = Indo-European

| glotto = sada1243

| glottoname = Sadanic

| fam2 = Indo-Iranian

| fam3 = Indo-Aryan

| fam4 = Eastern

| fam5 = Bihari

| child1 = Kurmali

| child2 = Nagpuri

| child3 = Panchpargania

}}

The Sadanic languages are Bihari languages in the Indo-Aryan languages. The languages are mostly spoken in the Jharkhand state of India.{{Cite journal|last1=Paudyal|first1=Netra P.|last2=Peterson|first2=John|date=2020-09-01|title=How one language became four: the impact of different contact-scenarios between "Sadani" and the tribal languages of Jharkhand|journal=Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics|language=en|volume=7|issue=2|pages=275–306|doi=10.1515/jsall-2021-2028|issn=2196-078X|doi-access=free}}

Etymology

The Nagpuri language is known as Sadani as native language of Sadan, the Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Chotanagpur. Sadani also referred to closely related Indo-Aryan languages of Jharkhand such as Nagpuri, Panchpargania, Kurmali and Khortha. The origin of the word Sadan is somewhat obscure.{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/7294382|title=Sadani / Sadri|publisher=academia.edu|author=Savita Kiran, John Peterson|access-date=5 October 2022}}

History

The Indo Aryan languages of Jharkhand such as Nagpuri, Panchpargania, Kurmali, and Khortha are known as Sadani languages. Earlier linguists had classified these languages as dialects of Bhojpuri and Magahi, but recent research suggests that these languages developed from a single ancestor language and are closer to each other than to other Bihari languages. Their differences are due to their geographical distribution and contact with different tribal Munda languages.

According to scholars, the Sadri/Nagpuri language was in contact with the Mundari language. Due to widespread use as a lingua franca, it lost ergativity as Munda languages have no ergativity. It gained attributive possession between alienable and inalienable in third person possessor. It lacks loan words from Dravidian and Austroasiatic languages but contributed countless loan words in its contact languages. According to Abbi (1997), Indo-Aryan languages influenced Dravidian and Austroasiatic languages. The converse marker of Kharia (-ke, -kon) and Kurukh (-ki) is due to influence from Indo-Aryan language.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PSFBDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA316|title=The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia: A Comprehensive Guide|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|author=Hans Henrich Hock, Elena Bashir|page=316|year=2016|isbn=978-3110423303}}

Panchparganiya does not have large numbers of loan words. It retain its morphological ergativity and did not develop an alienable or inalienable distinction in attributive possession.

Sadanic languages

Etymology

History

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