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Badaga
படக, ಬಡಗ, ബഡഗ
Native to
India
Region
The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu
Ethnicity
Badaga
Native speakers
134,000 (2011 census)[1]
Language family
Dravidian
South Dravidian
South Dravidian I
Tamil–Kannada
Badaga–Kannada
Badaga
Writing system
Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam
Language codes
ISO 639-3
bfq
Glottolog
bada1257
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Badaga is a southern Dravidian language spoken by the Badaga people of the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. The language is closely related to the Kannada language with heavy influence from Tamil language.[2] Of all the tribal languages spoken in Nilgiris (Badaga, Toda language, Kota language (India)), Badaga is the most spoken
language.
^Badaga at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
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Hockings, Paul (2004), "Badaga", in Ember, Carol R.; Ember, Melvin (eds.), Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures Volume I: Topics Volume II: Cultures, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 572–578, doi:10.1007/0-387-29905-x_57, ISBN 978-0-387-29905-1
Badaga is a southern Dravidian language spoken by the Badaga people of the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. The language is closely related to the Kannada...
live in nearly 400 villages, called Hattis. The Badagas speak a language called Badaga. The name Badaga, meaning 'northerner', comes from Old Kannada Badagana...
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Kannada dialects, in the broad sense incorporating the Kannada–Badagalanguages, are spoken in and around Karnataka. Apart from literary Kannada, used...
tribes of Nilgiris speak some form of dravidian language. Since the turn of the 21st century, the Badaga have numbered about 135,000 (18% of the district...
Todas, Kotas and Kurumbas. The Badagalanguage was the language of communication between these tribal groups. The Badagas are the dominant tribal group...
Badaga Cinema is the term used to refer to the Badagalanguage film industry based in Udagamandalam in Tamil Nadu, India. Since the production of the first...
Dravidian languages family. It includes the literary languages Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Tulu, as well as several non-literary languages such as Badaga, Irula...
52% with Kannada. Kannada is the closest major language. Their language is also very similar to Badaga. Wayanad Chetti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
write the Tamil language. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. Certain minority languages such as Saurashtra, Badaga, Irula and Paniya...
An endangered language is a language that is at a risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native...
Ethnologue also classifies a group of four languages related to Kannada, which are, besides Kannada proper, Badaga, Holiya, Kurumba and Urali. The Golars...
because the area around is known as Kundha Semay. Badaga is a southern Dravidian language (Old Kannada language branch) spoken by approximately 400,000 people...
Tamil languages, including Tamil Malayalam languages, including Malayalam Irula Kodava Toda Kota Kannada languages, including Kannada and Badaga Koraga...
Manihatty" which is known for its refined version. "Mettu Aata" in native Badagalanguage means "Foot tap dance". "Aata" means dance. Dance in India Dance India...
the Badagalanguage, Hockings explained that in his large collection "a few proverbs are mutually contradictory... we can be sure that the Badagas do not...
with ರ (ra) and ಳ (la) respectively. It is still used to write the Badagalanguage and a vowel + virama + ḻ is used to transcribe its retroflex vowels...
Tamil and Telugu movies. She has also sung for Kannada, Badaga, Hindi and Marathi and more languages movies. As of 2021[update], she had recorded more than...
songs in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi and Badaga. 2024 "My first break – Swarnalatha". The Hindu. 8 May 2009....
She has also recorded songs in other Indian languages including Kannada, Badaga and Hindi and Marathi song films. Sujatha's career began as a child singer...
privileges granted to non-Hindus in India. Other examples include: In 1989, the Badaga people of South India petitioned the Indian government to be recognized...
Wayanad district of Kerala, India. Its highest lexical similarity is with Badaga, which one calculation put at 57%, and it has somewhat lower similarities...
identical syllabic strings ("Bababa") and non-identical syllabic strings ("Badaga"), whereas patients with temporal or parietal lobe damage only exhibited...
Badagas belonging to the hatties of B.Manihatty, Thangadu, Puduhatty, Melur-hosahatty and Manhaaruva clan Haadatty. Jangura in native Badagalanguage...
According to linguistic scientists, it is very close to the Badagalanguage in the Dravidian language. There was a time when Vokkaliga Gowda came from Iguru...
name is believed to be derived from asinikol meaning bamboo sticks in Badagalanguage which formed the place before the village came into existence. Ketti...
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