Bellari language

Bellari
Bellari
Native to	India
Region	Karnataka & Kerala
Native speakers	1,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tulu Bellari; ; ;
Writing system	Kannada script, Malayalam script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	brw
Glottolog	bell1261
ELP	Bellari

Bellari is a Dravidian variety of India spoken by about 1,000 Bellara, a Scheduled Caste of Karnataka and Kerala. It is reportedly close to Tulu and Koraga (especially the former),[1] but it is not known if it is a separate language or a dialect of Tulu.[2] A community of fifty families of basket-weavers lives in Kundapura Taluk in coastal Karnataka.[3]

References

Bellari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Sanford Steever, 1998, The Dravidian Languages
Govt. owned website. "Karnatakada Budakattu Bhashegalu". Bangalore: Classical Kannada.org. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2013.

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[e18-1] Bellari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Sanford Steever, 1998, The Dravidian Languages

[gov-3] Govt. owned website. "Karnatakada Budakattu Bhashegalu". Bangalore: Classical Kannada.org. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2013.