Toda
E759157
Toda is a Southern Dravidian language spoken by the Toda people of the Nilgiri Hills in southern India, known for its highly complex phonology and small speaker population.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toda canonical | 2 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Southern Dravidian language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| approximateNumberOfSpeakers | less than 1,000 ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| documentedBy | linguists ⓘ |
| endangermentCause |
language shift to Tamil
ⓘ
small ethnic population ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Toda people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | toda1252 ⓘ |
| hasAcademicInterest |
language documentation
ⓘ
morphology ⓘ phonology ⓘ |
| hasCaseMarking | postpositional ⓘ |
| hasGenderSystem | grammatical gender ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ suffixing morphology ⓘ |
| hasNumberDistinction | singular and plural ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
complex consonant clusters
ⓘ
contrastive dental consonants ⓘ contrastive retroflex consonants ⓘ highly complex phonology ⓘ large consonant inventory ⓘ length distinctions ⓘ nasalized vowels ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV (subject–object–verb) ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Tamil Nadu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | tcx ⓘ |
| isSpokenNear |
Coonoor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kotagiri NERFINISHED ⓘ Ooty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Dravidian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linguisticClassification | South Dravidian I subgroup (often grouped) ⓘ |
| region | southern India ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Kannada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kodava NERFINISHED ⓘ Kota NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| script |
Latin script (for scholarly transcription)
ⓘ
Tamil script (occasionally used) ⓘ |
| speakerPopulation | small ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Toda people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
India
ⓘ
Nilgiri Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Southern Dravidian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication within Toda community
ⓘ
ritual practices of Toda people ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.