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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. Of all the tribal languages spoken in Nilgiris (Badaga, Toda language, Kota language (India)), Badaga is the most spoken language.
Badaga is a Southern Dravidian language spoken in southern Indian, particularly in the Malappuram district of Kerala state, and in the Kunda hills in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu state. In 2011 there were about 134,000 speakers of Badaga, which is also known as Badag, Badagu, Baduga, Badugu or Vadagu. It is closely related to Kannada.
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Badagu alphabet. The Badagu alphabet was created in 1968 by Yogesh Raj Kadasoley as a new way to write Badaga, a Southern Dravidian language spoken in southern Indian, particularly in Kerala and Tamil Nadu states. It was inspired by the Kannada and Tamil alphabets. There are classes in various villages in the script, and Yogesh Raj Kadasoley ...
1. Basics. Names. Badaga in India. Size. 133,550. 2. Status. Official country wide language. Official regional language. Official minority language. Recognised community language. Unrecognised community language. National language. No. Indigenous language.
Badaga is a Dravidian language spoken by about 140,000 people in southern India. The language belongs to the Tamil–Kannada branch of South Dravidian. It is relatively close to Kannada, a much larger language with 40 million speakers.
Badaga, is a southern Dravidian language spoken by approximately 400,000 people in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu. It is known for its retroflex vowels. It has similarities with neighbouring Kannada language and is considered a dialect of Kannada and now claimed as an independent language by a French linguistic scholar, Christiane Pilot-Raichoor.
