ABSTRACT
Gutob (Gad[a]ba) is a South Munda language spoken in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh (and among migrant workers in northern West Bengal and Assam), by an unknown but probably rather limited number of speakers.*
1.1 Name of the language
The name of the language, Gutob, as used by its speakers when speaking it, is identical with their self-designation as a social group (pace Parkin 1991:31), and may be cognate with the ethnonym and language name Gta (Anderson, this volume).1 To my knowledge, Ramamurti (1938) was the first among linguists to refer to this language as ‘Gutob’.
