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| name = Lodhi<br />
| altname = Sabar, Sabara<br />
| region = [[Odisha]], [[West Bengal]], [[Jharkhand]]<br />
| states = [[India]]<br />
| speakers = 25,000<br />
| date = 2007<br />
| ref = e18<br />
| familycolor = Austro-Asiatic<br />
| fam2 = [[Munda languages|Munda]]<br />
| fam3 = South<br />
| fam4 = Sora-Gorum<br />
| iso3 = lbm<br />
| glotto = lodh1246<br />
| glottorefname = Lodhi<br />
| speakers2 = 22% of ethnic population<br />
}}<br />
'''Lodhi''' (Lodi, Lohi, Lozi) is a [[Munda language]], or dialect cluster, of India. [[Kharia Thar language|Kharia Thar]] is only spoken by one quarter of ethnic Lodhi in Orissa. However, while admitting that Lodhi is related to [[Sora language|Sora]], a Munda language, ''Ethnologue'' classifies it as Indic ([[Bengali–Assamese]]), and it is considered a variety of Hindi in the Indian census. It may be that there are both Munda and Indic varieties subsumed under the name Lodhi.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}<br />
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However, Anderson (2008:299) suggests that Lodhi (Lodha) of northern Orissa may be an endangered Munda language; some members use the autonym Sabar or Sabara.<br />
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==Locations==<br />
Lodhi is spoken in:<br />
*Morada and Suliapada, Sadar subdivision, [[Mayurbhanj district]], [[Odisha]]<br />
*Sora block, [[Balasore district]], [[Odisha]]<br />
*Binpur and Kharagpur-I blocks in [[West Medinipur district]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
*[[Jharkhand]] (along the West Bengal border)<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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