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Which language do many Gond people speak in Chhattisgarh?
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Chhattisgarh
Chitrakot Waterfall on the Indravati River, near Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Many of the Gond people in Chhattisgarh speak Gondi.1
Gondi is a Dravidian language consisting of many dialects, some of which are mutually unintelligible. Because it is an unwritten language, it has faced pressure from dominant regional languages with written traditions, such as Hindi and Marathi. Consequently, some Gond individuals have shifted to speaking these dominant languages instead of their traditional tongue.23