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{{Short description|Munda language spoken in India}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Gutob
|altname=Bodo Gadaba
|nativename=ଗଦବା
|states=[[India]]
|region=[[Odisha]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]
|speakers=10-15,000
|date=2008
|ref=<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Voß|first=Judith|date=2015-01-01|title=Person markers in Gutob|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jsall-2015-0011|journal=Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics|volume=2|issue=2|doi=10.1515/jsall-2015-0011|s2cid=151570154|issn=2196-0771}}</ref>
|familycolor=Austroasiatic
|fam2=[[Munda languages|Munda]]
|fam3=South
|fam4=Gutob-Remo
|script=[[Odia script]]
|iso3=gbj
|glotto=bodo1267
|glottorefname=Bodo Gadaba
}}

The '''Gutob''' or '''Bodo Gadaba language''' is a south [[Munda languages|Munda]] language of the [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]] language family of [[India]], with the greatest concentrations of speakers being found in [[Koraput district]] of [[Odisha]] and [[Visakhapatnam district]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]]. It is also known simply as the '''Gadaba language''', but it is different from the [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]] [[Ollari language|Gadaba language]]. Other names for the Bodo Gadaba language include '''Gadba''', '''Gutop''', '''Gudwa''', '''Godwa''', '''Gadwa''', and '''Boi Gadaba'''.

==Classification==
The Gutob language belongs to the South Munda subgroup of the [[Munda languages|Munda]] branch of the [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic language family]]. It is most closely related to the [[Bonda language|Bondo language]].<ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gbj Ethnologue report on the Bodo Gadaba language]</ref>

==Distribution==
Gutob is spoken across southern [[Odisha]] and adjacent districts of northern [[Andhra Pradesh]], and is concentrated primarily in Lamptaput block, [[Koraput district]], southern [[Odisha]] (Griffiths 2008:634). In recent centuries, Gutob speakers have also migrated to the plains of Andhra Pradesh as well as [[Rayagada District]], including near the town Majiguda (close to Kalyansinghpur) where they live alongside the [[Kui language (India)|Dravidian]]-speaking [[Kondhs]].

''Ethnologue'' reports the following locations.
*40 villages of Lamptaput block, [[Koraput district]], southern [[Odisha]]
*Khoirput block, [[Malkangiri district]], southern [[Odisha]]
*[[Visakhapatnam district]], northern [[Andhra Pradesh]]

==Language status==
The Gutob language is considered to be either [[endangered language|endangered]] or [[moribund language|moribund]], due in part to several hydroelectric projects that have displaced Gutob people from their traditional villages and forced them to live as minorities in primarily [[Desiya language|Desiya]]-speaking villages. Anderson (2008) estimates the number of speakers at around 10 to 15,000, while the Asha Kiran society, which works in Koraput, estimates the number at less than 5,000. The 2011 census most likely counts Gutob and Ollari as the same language, since they are both called Gadaba by outsiders. Although Gutob-language education has been attempted, it has faced stiff resistance and most parents still want their children to learn Desiya only due to being in mixed villages.<ref>[http://www.sil.org/asia/ldc/parallel_papers/herold_rajan.pdf "Literature development in minority language: Case study of Gutob–Gadaba Language Revitalization Project in India"] (in .pdf format)</ref>

==References==
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*Griffiths, Arlo. 2008. In Anderson, Gregory D.S (ed). ''The Munda languages'', 633–681. Routledge Language Family Series 3.New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|0-415-32890-X}}.

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[[Category:Languages of India]]
[[Category:Munda languages]]
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]
[[Category:Endangered Austroasiatic languages]]

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