NEW DELHI: For more than a decade, Sugdu Potai taught Gondi at a government primary school in central India. But over the past year, the 50-year-old’s command of the Dravidian language, spoken by around three million people across various parts of India, has been put to the test.
Potai had to translate complex Hindi sentences and find Gondi equivalents for words such as “discipline” and “set-up”, which are now more commonly expressed by Gondi speakers in Hindi.
