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XXI. The Kurku Dialect of the Munda Family of Speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Sten Konow
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Extract

The Kūrkūs are a Muṇḍā tribe living in the north of Berar and the adjoining parts of the Central Provinces. At the last Census, of 1901, their dialect was returned as spoken by 87,675 individuals.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 1904 , pp. 423 - 433
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1904

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1 The sign å denotes the sound of a in ‘ all’ and the corresponding short sound. In a similar way I shall use ä in order to mark the open sound of ä in German ‘ Bär.’ Compare the sound of ai in English ‘ hair.’