Kuvi

The Hindi, Oriya and Kuvi languages would then fall in line, each above the next.

Burrow visited India four times during 1950-66 and collected data on Parji, Kui, Kuvi, Gondi, Pengo, and Manda in central India, accompanied by Dr.

Using Steever's (1993: 4) names, three distinct and coherent groups are universally recognized: 1) South: Tamil, Malayalam, Irula, Kodagu, Toda, Kota, Kannada, and Tulu; 2) South-Central: Telugu, Gondi, Konda, Kui, Kuvi, Pengo, and Manda; 3) Central: Kolami, Naiki, Parji, Ollari, and Gadaba.

35-68) deals with the genesis of the object-verb agreement in Kui, since "nowhere does Dravidian verb morphology more fully reveal its complex, synthetic aspect than in the South-central languages, particularly in Kui, Kuvi, Manda and Pengo." The chapter provides, cross-linguistically, an example of the historical development of object-verb agreement by means other than the cliticization of pronouns to a verb form.

Israel, A grammar of the Kuvi language (Trivandrum, 1979), 247-49.