The Vowels of the Badaga Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2887772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M B Emeneau (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1939 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43 |
| Publication date | 1939-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/409407 |
| OpenAlex | W2317856090 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
The Badagas of the Nilgiri Hills in South India are a community numbering some 40,000 and comprising seven sub-castes. They are known to be immigrants from Mysore state, having appeared on the Nilgiris some five or six centuries ago. Their language is certainly an offshoot of Kannaḍa, as is shown by its having in common with modern Kannaḍa among other features initial h instead of p of other Dravidian languages. A. N. Narasimhia, in The history of p in Kanarese, has demonstrated for Kannaḍa that h - appeared first in inscriptions in the language in the 10th century A.D. and by the 16th century had established itself in inscriptions in almost all words. In the 13th century h- < p- had already begun to disappear and has now entirely disappeared in the uneducated vernaculars; we have no information whether this is the case in all the local vernaculars. In the Badaga language this h- still remains, but in the absence of a dialect atlas for Kannaḍa this survival of h- is of no use in dating the advent of the Badagas in the Nilgiris. The Badaga language is said by speakers of it to have different dialects, but no work has been done except on that spoken in the neighborhood of Kateri. Enough work has been done by the writer on this one dialect of Badaga to permit a short treatment of phonology and especially of the vowels
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2022 (49) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |