Lodhi language
| Lodhi | |
|---|---|
| Sabar, Sabara | |
| ସାବାର | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand |
| Ethnicity | Lodha |
Native speakers | 139,000 (2011) 22% of ethnic population |
Austroasiatic
| |
| Devanagri Script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lbm |
| Glottolog | lodh1246 |
Lodhi (Lodi, Lohi, Lozi) is a Munda language, or dialect cluster, of India. Kharia Thar is only spoken by one quarter of ethnic Lodhi in Orissa. However, while admitting that Lodhi is related to Sora, a Munda language, Ethnologue classifies it as Indic (Bengali–Assamese), and it is considered a variety of Hindi in the Indian census. It may be that there are both Munda and Indic varieties subsumed under the name Lodhi.
However, Anderson (2008:299) suggests that Lodhi (Lodha) of northern Orissa may be an endangered Munda language; some members use the autonym Sabar or Sabara.