Badaga
| Badaga | ||
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Spoken in |
India ( Nilgiris District , Tamil Nadu ) | |
| speaker | 134,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
dra (other Dravidian languages) |
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| ISO 639-3 |
bfq |
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Badaga ( baḍaga ) is a Dravidian language spoken by the Badaga people in the Nilgiris in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. The language belongs to the South Dravidian subgroup and is most closely related to the Kannada . Badaga is sometimes seen as a dialect of the Kannada. The 2011 Indian census recorded 134,000 speakers of the Badaga, with the Badaga being subsumed in the statistics as a variant of the Kannada.
Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2011: Data on Language and Mother Tongue. Statement 1. Abstract of Speakers' Stregnth of Languages and Mother Tongues - 2011.
literature
- Ramaswami Balakrishnan: Badaga - a Dravidian language. Annamalai University: Annamalainagar, 1999. (Grammar, English)
- Paul Hockings: A Badaga-English Dictionary. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1992. ISBN 3-11-012677-X (dictionary, English)
