People’s Linguistic Survey of India: Volume 7, Part II: The Languages of Chhattisgarh

Contents: Foreword. Introduction to the Volume. 1. Abujhmadiya. 2. Baigani. 3. Bhatari. 4. Chhattisgarhi. 5. Dandami Madiya. 6. Dewar (Parsi). 7. Dhurvi (Parji). 8. Dorli. 9. Ghotul Muriya. 10. Gondi. 11. Halbi. 12. Kamari. 13. Kurukh. 14. Munda. 15. Pando. 16. Pardhi. 17. Sargujiha. Index.

The Languages of Chhattisgarh (volume seven, part two) of the People's Linguistic Survey of India discusses the Non-Scheduled languages spoken and in use in Chhattisgarh. The volume is a novel attempt to document the languages of the state--each chapter is dedicated to a language and explores its history, statistics of usage, linguistic characteristics, grammatical features, folklore and vocabulary; multiple examples are provided to give the reader as broad a sense of the language as possible.