Gataq language

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Gataq
Spoken in:	India
Total speakers:	3,055 (1991 census)
Language family:	Austro-Asiatic Munda South Munda Koraput Munda Gataq
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`–`
ISO 639-3:	`gaq`
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The Gataq language, also known as Gataʔ, Getaq, Getaʔ, Gtaʔ, Gata, Gta Asa, Didei, Didayi, or Dire, is a language spoken by the Didayi people of India.

[edit] Classification

The Gataq language belongs to the South Munda subgroup of the Munda branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family.^[1] Within South Munda, Gataq is generally considered to be the first branch off a node that also subsumes the Remo and Gutob languages; this subgroup of South Munda is known as Gutob-Remo-Gataq.

Professor Emeritus Norman Zide writes, "The Gta? (Didayi) language is a phonologically and morphologically divergent branch of the Gutob-Remo-Gta? (GRG) branch of South Munda."