Several attempts were made at constructing an orthography based on English and Kannada.
The word Badaga, meaning "northerner", refers to the Badaga language as well as the Badaga indigenous people who speak it. It has similarities with neighbouring Kannada language, and has now been identified as an independent language by a French linguistic scholar, Christiane Pilot-Raichoor. Note on transcription: rhoticity indicates half-retroflexion doubled it indicates full retroflexion.īadaga () is a southern Dravidian language spoken by approximately 135,000 people in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu.
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