Kolami Wikipedia

Southeastern Kolami (ISO 639- nit)

Southeastern Kolami/Naiki is a Dravidian indigenous language spoken in parts of Telangana and Maharashtra states of India. Kolami is spoken by 44000 people in Telangana, India. 

This is one of the endangered languages listed on the Endangered Languages Project as threatened by its existence. 

Links:

Endangered Languages Project- https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4861 

Glottolog - https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sout1549 

As per the Government of Education, India is home to 1600+ mother tongues. India has about 447 established languages and is fourth by most number of languages spoken in a country across the world. And we strongly believe that Building content in Smaller Indian languages is paramount to conserve and develop these languages. Kolami is a Dravidian indigenous language spoken in parts of Telangana and Maharashtra states of India. Kolami is spoken by 44000 people in Telangana, India. This language is one of the most under-resourced languages spoken in India. There is no mass media in the language and there was no education in the language until recently. With the introduction of New Education Policy in India, primary education in mother tongue is getting encouraged and it is a good time to prepare Kolami for the same. Government of Telangana has put continuous efforts in building Foundational literacy content for students of this community, the government has produced some books for early school education in recent times. It's high time to build content in the Kolami language, this helps the Kolam community with access to world knowledge.