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The Badaga language is well studied, mainly by missionaries, and several Badaga-English Dictionaries have been produced since the latter part of the nineteenth century.īadaga Cinema is the term used to refer to the Badaga language film industry based in Udagamandalam in Tamil Nadu, India. Current speakers only distinguish retroflection for a few vowels. The earliest printed book using Kannada script was "Anga Kartagibba Yesu Kristana Olleya Suddiya Pustaka" by Basel Mission Press of Mangaluru in 1890.īadaga has five vowels qualities,, 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. Several attempts were made at constructing an orthography based on English and Kannada.
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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.
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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.