ABSTRACT
As a South-Central Dravidian language, Gondi belongs to the same subgroup as Telugu, Konda, Küi, Küvi, Pengo and Manda. Like Telugu and Konda, but unlike the other four, Gondi lacks a system of object-verb agreement. Like Old Telugu, but unlike Konda, Gondi still uses serial verb constructions with the aux iliary verb ä ‘become’ (DEDR 333) in the negative conjugation. And, unlike the remaining South-Central languages, certain dialects of Gondi have lost contras tive vowel length.
