![]() ![]() Several attempts have been made at constructing an orthography based on English, Kannada and Tamil. Note on transcription: rhoticity ⟨ ◌˞⟩ indicates half-retroflexion doubled ⟨ ◌˞˞⟩ it indicates full retroflexion. Current speakers only distinguish retroflection of a few vowels. Phonology īadaga has five vowel qualities, /i e a o u/, where each of them may be long or short, and until the 1930s they were contrastively half and fully retroflexed, for a total of 30 vowel phonemes. One such feature is that Badaga shows initial h (common with modern Kannada) instead of p which had already started to disappear in 13th century Kannada. This is proven by the fact that Badaga shares many common features with modern Kannada. Origins īadaga is the ancestor of Kannada. Of all the tribal languages spoken in Nilgiris (Badaga, Toda language, Kota language (India)), Badaga is the most spoken language. The language is closely related to the Kannada language with heavy influence from Tamil language. ![]() ![]() For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.īadaga is a southern Dravidian language spoken by the Badaga people of the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. ![]()
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