Kodava language

Spoken in

• Dravidian Süddravidisch Kodava

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Dra ( other Dravidian languages ​​)

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Kodava ( Kodava, also Kodagu, Coorgi ) is the Dravidian language of the people of the same name. It is in the district of Kodagu (formerly Coorg ) of the South Indian state of Karnataka spreads where they are talking about 166,000 people as a native language. It has strong influences from related languages, especially Kannada, which is used by the majority of the speakers as a second language. Kodava is written since the 17th century in the Kannada script, although this characteristic for two vowels of the language has no characters. Kodava includes two dialects, a northern and a southern. As standard, the literary works always preferred northern dialect has prevailed, which is in and around Madikeri, the former capital of the former princely state of Coorg, spoken.

Although the Kodava attach great importance to their mother tongue as the central element of their community, English and Kannada are preferred as educational or administrative languages ​​. Nevertheless, two weeks newspapers are published in Kodava. All India Radio broadcasts contributions in the language, and even on local television programs are broadcast in Kodava.

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