Information about language name: Belagu?

[Dora Johnson]

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Thank you so much for responding. We did finally decide that the
language must have been Telugu, based on what you and several other
people guessed. The problem was that the researchers could not go back
to the parent since this study is randomized. My other reaction was if
the child spoke Belagu, he/she was the only speaker and it would be
forgotten by the time he/she was 12!

Thanks again.

Dora Johnson
Research Associate
Center for Applied Linguistics
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From: South Asian Linguists [mailto:VYAKARAN at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf
Of Maggie Ronkin
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 10:49 AM
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Subject: Re: Information about language name: Belagu?

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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
>Web site: www.cal.org

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