ABSTRACT
Konda belongs to the South Central Dravidian languages its sisters are Telugu, Gondi, Kui, Kuvi, Pengo and Manda. Its speakers number about 20,000 and live in the Agency tracts of Visakhapatnam, Vijayanagaram and Srikakulam districts in Andhra Pradesh. Sandhi rules for consonants mainly involve assimilation of voicing simplification of geminates and sonorant clusters and occasionally elision of dissimilar consonants. Nouns are words whose stems are inflected for one or more of the categories of case, number and gender. Pronouns, numerals and adverbs of time and place are subclasses of nouns. Pronouns distinguish for number and inflect for case. Complex noun stems consist of one root morpheme and one or more derivational suffixes. Complex stems behave like simple stems with regard to inflectional morphemes representing gender, number and case. All complex derived stems fall under the following classes.
