Badaga language

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Badaga
படுக, ಬಡಗ
Native toIndia
RegionThe Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu
EthnicityBadaga
Native speakers
134,000 (2011 census)[1]
Dravidian
Tamil, Kannada
Language codes
ISO 639-3bfq
Glottologbada1257
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Badaga is a southern Dravidian language spoken by the Badaga people of the Nilgiris district of Northwest Tamil Nadu. The language is closely related to Kannada.[2]

Phonology[]

Badaga has five vowels qualities, /i e a o u/, each of which may be long or short and until the 1930s were contrastively half and fully retroflexed, for a total of 30 vowel phonemes.[3] Current speakers only distinguish retroflection for a few vowels.[4]

Example words[5]
IPA Gloss
/noː/ disease
/po˞˞ː/ scar
/mo˞e˞/ sprout
/a˞e˞/ tiger's den
/ha˞ːsu/ to spread out
/ka˞˞ːʃu/ to remove
/i˞ːu˞˞/ seven
/hu˞˞ːj/ tamarind
/be˞ː/ bangle
/be˞˞ː/ banana
/huj/ to strike
/hu˞j/ tamarind
/u˞˞j/ chisel

Note on transcription: rhoticity ⟨◌˞⟩ indicates half-retroflexion; doubled ⟨◌˞˞⟩ it indicates full retroflexion.

Bilabial Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar
Nasal m n ɳ
Stop voiceless p t ʈ c k
voiced b d ɖ ɟ g
Fricative v s
Approximant l ɻ j
Trill r

Writing system[]

Several attempts were 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.[6]

Usage of vowels and consonants of Tamil-Kannada script to create Badaga script
Usage of Tamil-Kannada script to create Badaga script

The Badaga language is also written in the Tamil script.

List of Books in Kannada Script:[7]

  1. Anga Kartagibba Yesu Kristana Olleya Suddiya Pustaka
  2. Jonah
  3. Mana Kannadi
  4. Marka Bareda Loka ratchagana kade
  5. Zion

Dictionary[]

The Badaga language is well studied and several Badaga-English Dictionaries have been produced since the latter part of the nineteenth century.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Badaga at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Emenau (1931) reports no tokens of /i˞˞/, but suggests this is an accidental gap.
  4. ^ "Badaga". UCLA Phonetics Lab. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  5. ^ "Word List for Badaga". UCLA Phonetics Lab. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  6. ^ http://gospelgo.com/q/Badaga%20Bible%20-%20Gospel%20of%20Luke.pdf
  7. ^ https://archive.org/details/kannadabadagakur00brit
  8. ^ Paul Hockings, Christiane Pilot-Raichoor (1992). A Badaga-English Dictionary (Reprint ed.). Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110126778. Retrieved 6 February 2013.

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