Badaga language

Badaga ( Badaga: படக பாஷை, Kannada: ಬಡಗ ಭಾಷೆ ) (ISO 639-3: BFQ ) is a süddravidische language with about 250,000 speakers who belong to the people of the Badaga, which is native to the Nilgiris in the south of India. The language is most closely related to the Kannada and is partly viewed as a dialect of that language.