The Gondi language of Madhya Pradesh belongs to which language family?
- A.Indo-Aryan
- B.Dravidian
- C.Austroasiatic
- D.Tibeto-Burman
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Dravidian. Gondi is the language of the Gond people, the largest tribal community of central India, spread over the Satpura and Mahakoshal belt of Madhya Pradesh and into the neighbouring states. Although it is surrounded on all sides by Hindi dialects, it belongs to the Dravidian family, a fact that makes it the usual answer when a question asks which language of the state is not Indo-Aryan.
Option A, Indo-Aryan, is the family of Hindi and of the tribal language Bhili spoken by the Bhils of Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar, which is close to Gujarati and Rajasthani. Option C, Austroasiatic, is the family of Korku, spoken in the Betul, Chhindwara and Khandwa hills, through its Munda branch. Option D, Tibeto-Burman, has no significant presence in Madhya Pradesh; it is the family of many languages of the north east and the Himalaya.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Nimadi dialect is spoken in which region of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Malwa plateau
- B.Nimar tract along the Narmada
- C.Bundelkhand
- D.Baghelkhand
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Nimadi takes its name from Nimar, the country lying south of the Vindhyas in the Narmada valley, and it is spoken in Khargone, Khandwa, Barwani and Burhanpur.
Read the full explanation →Which dialect of Madhya Pradesh is spoken in Rewa, Satna, Sidhi and Shahdol?
- A.Bundeli
- B.Bagheli
- C.Malwi
- D.Kannauji
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Rewa was the capital of the Baghel Rajput house that gave the region its name, and the dialect shades into Awadhi towards Uttar Pradesh and into Chhattisgarhi towards the south east, which is exactly why Grierson classified it as Eastern Hindi.
Read the full explanation →In the Linguistic Survey of India, Grierson classified Bagheli under which group?
- A.Eastern Hindi
- B.Western Hindi
- C.Rajasthani
- D.Bihari
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Grierson grouped Awadhi, Bagheli and Chhattisgarhi together as Eastern Hindi, because all three descend from the same Ardhamagadhi line and share features that set them apart from the dialects further west.
Read the full explanation →Keshavdas, the author of Ramchandrika, was a poet of which court?
- A.Orchha
- B.Gwalior
- C.Mandu
- D.Ujjain
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Keshavdas lived at the Bundela court of Orchha on the Betwa, and he is treated as the acharya who opened the riti era of Hindi poetry, in which the rules of poetics mattered as much as the feeling.
Read the full explanation →Which poet is remembered for the chaukadiya fag songs of Bundeli?
- A.Isuri
- B.Jagnik
- C.Padmakar
- D.Tansen
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Isuri composed in Bundeli in the four line form called chaukadiya, sung above all in the fag songs of the Holi season, and his verses on love and separation are still sung across Bundelkhand.
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