Kodava language

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Kodava language is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kodava (Coorg) community in the Kodagu district of Karnataka, India.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kodava language canonical 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
minority language
natural language
alternativeName Coorg language
Coorgi
Kodava
surface form: Kodava takk
closelyRelatedTo Badaga language
Kannada
surface form: Kannada language

Tulu
surface form: Tulu language
country India
culturalAssociation Kodava dance and festivals
Kodava oral epics
district Kodagu district
surface form: Kodagu
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Kodava people
hasCaseSystem rich case marking
hasDialects varieties associated with different Kodava clans
hasGlottocode koda1255
hasGlottologName Kodava
hasISO639-3Code kfa
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
hasRevitalizationEfforts community-based language promotion
hasWordOrder SOV
influencedBy Kannada
Sanskrit
Tulu
languageFamily Dravidian languages
mediaPresence local print and electronic media
neighboringLanguages Kannada
Malayalam
Tulu
numberOfSpeakersApproximate 100000
primaryReligionOfSpeakers Hinduism
region South India
script Kannada script
spokenIn India
Karnataka
Kodagu district
state Karnataka
subfamilyOf Southern Dravidian
surface form: Southern Dravidian languages
taughtIn some schools in Kodagu district
usedFor domestic communication
folk songs
oral tradition
rituals
writingTradition primarily oral historically

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kannada script writingSystemFor Kodava language
Southern Dravidian includes Kodava language
Dravidian literature hasLanguage Kodava language
Tamil–Malayalam subgroup includes Kodava language
Tamil–Kodagu subgroup includes Kodava language
South Dravidian languages hasMember Kodava language