Information about language name: Belagu?

[Maggie Ronkin]

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Accd to a quick Google:

The spelling given may have some association with Kannada, a Dravidian
language. (The page that I found is in Kannada, so perhaps a Kannada speaker
can assess this association.)

[Of course, the Kannada Balaga UK is the Association of the Kannada speaking
community in the UK.
There's also a Kannada Balaga of Chennai and even one in Charleston, West
Virginia!]

In Indonesian, "belagu" means "a put on".

The spelling "Belaga" refers to the last major town in the upper Rejang
valley, Malaysia.

There's a Balagu (Tibetan) refugee camp, which, I supsect, is in Nepal near
Kathmandu.

[Miss Nepal's favorite pass time is Tirupti Balagu, according to her
website.]

There's a Balagu South Electoral District in Yendi, Ghana.

Additional information about the family could prove to be helpful.

Regards
Maggie
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:45:11 -0400
>From: Dora Johnson <dora at cal.org>
>To: Harold F. Schiffman <haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Information about language name
>
>
>On one of our projects, we are asking parents to indicate the language of
>their child, and a father indicated that his child was born in India and
>spoke Belagu. I have been unable to find such a language name. Sometimes
>people will put down the name of the town or area they come from and say
>they speak that language, but I can't find a place of that name either.
>Can someone help?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Dora Johnson
>Research Associate
>Center for Applied Linguistics
>4646 40th Street, NW
>Washington, DC  20016-1859
>Telephone: 202-362-0700
>Fax: 202-363-7204
>E-mail: dora at cal.org
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