Turi

Facts

  • Language: Turi
  • Alternate names:
  • Language code: trd
  • Language family: Austro-Asiatic, Munda, North Munda, Kherwari, Santali (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 2,000
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script:

More information:

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

    Turi is spoken in India, South Asia.