Kodava language: Difference between revisions

The grammar of Kodagu has been systematically studied and documented since at least around 1867 when Captain R.A. Cole published the seminal work ''An Elementary Grammar of the Coorg Language''.<ref>https://archive.org/details/CoorgGrammar</ref>

Dravidian vowel systems contain five vowel qualities i.e. those usually corresponding to ''a, e, i, o'' and ''u.,'' with a short and long variants for each. However, Kodava has two more: the mid and high (close) back unrounded vowels, with corresponding long variants.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Emeneau|first=M. B.|date=1970|title=Koḍagu Vowels|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=90|issue=1|pages=145–158|doi=10.2307/598436|jstor=598436|issn=0003-0279}}</ref>

Kodava and Kannada share a lack of palatalization of word-initial ''*k-'', which is a feature found in the Tamil-Malayalam branch.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Emeneau|first=M. B.|date=1967|title=The South Dravidian Languages|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=87|issue=4|pages=365–413|doi=10.2307/597585|jstor=597585|issn=0003-0279}}</ref>

Linguistically, Kodava/Kodagu language belongs to the South Dravidian subfamily of the Dravidian family. Further within the South Dravidian subfamily , it belongs to the subgroup Tamil-Malayalam-Kodagu-Kota-Toda.<ref>Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju. ''Dravidian Languages,'' p21, Cambridge Language Surveys, Cambridge University Press, 2003</ref> It is closely related to and influenced by [[Kannada language|Kannada]], [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and [[Tulu language|Tulu]]. A majority of the words are common between Kodava and [[Beary bashe]], a dialect which is a mixture of [[Tulu language|Tulu]] and [[Malayalam]] spoken by the [[Beary]] muslims and Kodava Thiyyar communities.

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