Badaga language
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.Of all the tribal languages spoken in Nilgiris (Badaga, Toda language, Kota language (India)), Badaga is the most spoken language.
Badaga | |
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படக, ಬಡಗ, ബഡഗ | |
Native to | India |
Region | The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu |
Ethnicity | Badaga |
Native speakers | 134,000 (2011 census)[1] |
Tamil, Kannada | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bfq |
Glottolog | bada1257 |
Writing system
Several attempts have been made at constructing an orthography based on English, Kannada and Tamil. The earliest printed book using Kannada script was a Christian work, "Anga Kartagibba Yesu Kristana Olleya Suddiya Pustaka" by Basel Mission Press of Mangaluru in 1890.[2]
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Badaga can also be written in the Kannada script and Tamil script.
Dictionary
Badaga is well studied and several Badaga-English Dictionaries have been produced since the latter part of the nineteenth century.[3]
Proverbs, etc.
A collection of proverbs and other traditional sayings of the Badaga has been collated and edited by Paul Hockings.[4] It is the result of the work of many people, collecting material over many decades.
References
- Badaga at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
- The Gospel of Luke in Badaga (PDF). Basel: Basel Mission Press. 1890.
- Paul Hockings, Christiane Pilot-Raichoor (1992). A Badaga-English Dictionary (Reprint ed.). Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-012677-8.
- Hockings, Paul. "Counsel from the Ancients." A study of Badaga proverbs, prayers, omens and curses. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter (1988).
Relevant literature
- Hockings, Paul. Counsel from the ancients: A study of Badaga proverbs, prayers, omens, and curses. Mouton de Gruyter, 1988. Archive.org
External links
- Online community of Badagas worldwide
- Badaga literature
- A website on the Badaga
- Audio recordings in Badaga, with annotations in trilingual format (Badaga, English, French) Archived 9 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine – transcribed and translated by C. Pilot-Raichoor – site of the Pangloss Collection, CNRS-LACITO