Gondi Wikipedia

Adilabadi Gondi (ISO 639 - wsg)

Adilabadi Gondi is a indigenous language spoken in parts of Telangana/Andhra Pradesh, India. This language belongs to the Dravidian language family. The language is mostly in use among the tribes of Northern Telangana especially in the districts of Adilabad, Nirmal, Kumuram Bheem Asifabad, and some parts of Warangal and Bhadradri Kothagudem. 

Adilabadi Gondi is spoken by the Gondi population of Telangana and a few other tribes like Thoti, Pradhan and Naikpod from the Northern part of Telangana. Telangana & Andhra Pradesh have 3 lakh Gond population as per 2011 Indian government census. 

Links:

SIL international - https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/wsg 

Ethnologue-  https://www.ethnologue.com/language/wsg/ 

Started in July 2022, Gondi Wikipedia is an attempt to foster the digital presence of Gondi language on Wikimedia and Open knowledge. This project specially focuses on building content in Adilabadi Gondi with Telugu script. 

Adilabadi Gondi also have a native script which is known as Gunjala Gondi lipi. As there are limited resources to write on digital mediums with Gunjala Gondi we chose to develop the content with Telugu script.

Gondi Wikipedia is currenlty under development on Wikimedia incubator