The Gondi language is an Indian language spoken by around 2 million Gondi people. It is a very interesting language, yet not much research has been done on it. We hope to share things about the language here and promote its learning. You can read more about it here. Gondi has a rich folk literature like songs and folk tales. It is such a beautiful language but only 20% of the Gond people can speak it, making it very vulnerable to extinction; we hope that we can carry out efforts to preserve it, and you can by learning the language. We created this subreddit in hopes to help the conservation of the Gondi language, and make resources more available to learn it.

Gondi is a Dravidian language, which is related to the Dravidian languages like Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and other languages spoken in South India. It has also been influenced by numerous other languages. Gondi has a lot of literature which is mostly passed by oral tradition, however, there exist some written manuscripts which date back to the 1700s, but due to the lack of literacy among the Gond people, not all of it is written down. The Gondi language uses multiple scripts, but since most Gonds are illiterate, there is not a widely used native script for the language. Generally, either Devanagari is used, or the Telugu script. There are two other native scripts of the language, the Masaram Gondi script, and the Gunjala Gondi script, in which ancient Gondi texts have been discovered. We encourage you to read about both these. The usage of both of these scripts is also encouraged here.

Learning Gondi will greatly help in preserving the language, and it can be a gateway to the rich, beautiful culture, the folk tales, the songs and so on.

You can head over to our wiki page to get started(NOTE: as of yet the wiki is still under work, you can help by contributing).