- ^ Lambadi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Naik, Dhansing B. (2000). The Art and Literature of Banjara Lambanis: A Socio-cultural Study. New Delhi: Abhinav Prakashan. p. 10. ISBN 9788170173649. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
| Lambadi | |
|---|---|
| Banjari, Labanki | |
| Native to | India |
| Ethnicity | Banjara |
Native speakers | 5 million (2011 census)[1] |
Indo-European
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lmn |
| Glottolog | lamb1269 |
Lambadi or Labanki is a language spoken by the once nomadic Lambadi Banjara people across India and it belongs to Indo-Aryan group of languages. The language does not have a native script.[2]
Regional dialects are divided between the Banjara of Maharashtra (written in Devanagari), Karnataka (written in the Kannada script), Tamil Nadu (written in the Tamil script) and Telangana, Andhra Pradesh (written in the Telugu script). Speakers are bilingual in either Telugu, Kannada, or Marathi.[citation needed]
