Kodagu

Facts

  • Language: Kodagu
  • Alternate names: Kodava, Coorge, Kadagi, Khurgi, Kotagu, Kurja, Kurug, Kodava Thak, Koḍagu
  • Language code: kfa
  • Language family: Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Kodagu (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 97,011
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Kannada script.

More information:

    A symbol of identity. ‘Kodagu’, situated to the west. Northern variety has emerged as standard and is used in Kodava literature (Rajyashree 2001). Hindu, traditional religion.

    This may be more than one language. Incipient endangerment.