Lambadi

Lambadi, Labanki or Gor-boli, also called Banjari, is a language spoken by the once nomadic Banjara people across India and it belongs to Indo-Aryan group of languages. The language does not have a native script.

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.

Lambadi
Gor-boli, Banjari, Labanki
Native to India
Ethnicity Banjara
Native speakers
4,857,819 (2011 census)
Language family
Indo-European

  • Indo-Iranian
    • Indo-Aryan
      • Western
        • Rajasthani–Marwari
          • Rajasthani
            • Lambadi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lmn
Glottolog lamb1269