Badaga
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southern Dravidian language (Tamil–Kannada branch) spoken mostly by people in the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India
Key facts
- Native to
- India
- Region
- Tamil Nadu ( The Nilgiris )
- Ethnicity
- Badaga
- Native speakers
- 134,000 (2011 census)
- Language family
- Dravidian Southern Southern I Tamil – Kannada Kannada–Badaga Badaga
- Writing system
- Tamil Badaga Kannada
- Iso 639 3
- bfq
- Glottolog
- bada1257
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Kannada-Badaga
- Country
- India
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- writing system
- Tamil script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 134000
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- Wikimedia language code
- bfq
- indigenous to
- Tamil Nadu
- topic's main category
- Category:Badaga language
- native label
- ಬಡಗ
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Encyclopedic overview
Badaga ( IPA: [bɐɖɐɡɐ]) 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 influence from the Tamil language. Of all the tribal languages spoken in Nilgiris (Badaga, Toda language, Kota language (India)), Badaga is the most spoken language.
Origins
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Badaga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.