Nagaraja K.S. The Nihali Language: Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary

Central Institute of Indian Languages, 2014. — 343 p.Dr. Nagaraja has commenced his fieldwork on Nihali in the late 1990s and since then he has been eliciting and analyzing the data, intermittently for the last one and half a decade. The Nihali speakers of Buldana district of Maharashtra; spread over 5-6 villages, have been his main informants. The. speakers are bilingual speaking Nihali and Korku (some of them know Marathi or Hindi). The impact of Korku on Nihali is noticed at all levels and the scholar's intensive work on the former unearthed the different areas of convergence. The grammatical analysis and description are carried out within the model of modern American Structural linguistics. Establishment of functional sounds, their contrasts, distribution and allophones together with syllable structure form the description of phonology. The term grammar comprises the traditional morphology as well as syntax with convincing examples.