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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Gorum<br />
|nativename=Parengi<br />
|states=[[India]]<br />
|region=[[Odisha]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
|ethnicity=9,445 in Odisha (2011 census)<ref>{{e19|pcj|Parenga}}</ref><br />
|speakers=20<br />
|date=2011<br />
|ref=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-1206.html|title=UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger|website=www.unesco.org|language=en|access-date=2018-08-15}}</ref><br />
|familycolor=Austroasiatic<br />
|fam2=[[Munda languages|Munda]]<br />
|fam3=South<br />
|fam4=Sora-Gorum<br />
|iso3=pcj<br />
|glotto=pare1266<br />
|glottorefname=Gorum-Parenga<br />
}}<br />
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'''Gorum''', or '''Parengi''', is a nearly-extinct minor [[Munda language]] of India.<br />
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==Names==<br />
The name ''Gorum'' most likely comes from an animal/people prefix ''go''- and root -''rum'' meaning 'people', and is possibly related to the ethnonym [[Bonda language|Remo]] (Anderson 2008:381).<br />
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''Parengi'', or ''Parenga'', is of obscure origin.<br />
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==Status==<br />
'''Gorum''' is 60% endangered, it is very likely that it might soon be extinct majority of the people under 30 years cannot understand the language. In addition those who know it are likely to deny knowing it.<ref>http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4953 Endangered Language Project</ref> This language seems to have been first researched in 1933, that being the earliest scholarly reference.<ref>Sitapati, G.V. 1933. “Pareng.” A Miscellany of Papers Presented to Rao Sahib Mahopadhyaya Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthi. Madras. 145-65</ref><br />
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==Origins==<br />
While '''Gorum''' is a member of the [[Munda languages|Munda]] family, it has taken some things from [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]], a language spoken nearby. For example, they tend to doubly inflect on certain types of [[Auxiliary verb|AVC]] structures. Another derivation from the Munda language is the use of some [[Glottal consonant|Glottals]] being "creeky voiced"<ref>Anderson, Gregory D.S. & Felix Rau. 2008. “Gorum.” In: Gregory D.S. Anderson</ref><br />
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==Distribution==<br />
Gorum speakers are located in the following areas of eastern India (Anderson 2008:381).<br />
*[[Koraput district]], [[Odisha]]: the former Nandapur and Pottangi taluks<br />
*[[Visakhapatnam district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]: Munchingput block<br />
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[[Gutob language|Gutob]] is spoken to the north of Gorum, and [[Gta language|Gta]] to the west of Gorum.<br />
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==References==<br />
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*Anderson, Gregory D.S (ed). 2008. ''The Munda languages''. Routledge Language Family Series 3.New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|0-415-32890-X}}.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4953 Endangered Language Project Database]<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/worldlanguagemovies/search?query=Parangi World Language Movies]<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok9p0N81iKE Opino Gomango on Sora language]<br />
* [http://www.isfas.uni-kiel.de/de/linguistik/forschung/southasiabibliography/bibliography/austroasiatic/munda/gorum Bibliography on the Gorum language]<br />
* [http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/austroasiatic/AA/Munda/Dictionaries/Gorum Gorum Dictionary]<br />
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