question about Kodava

[Jean-Luc Chevillard]

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Dear Hal,

In the 2003 book "The Dravidian Languages" by 
Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (Cambridge Language Surveys),
I find on page 24 the following

"Kod.agu (Coorgi, Kod.agii, Kod.ava). Population 
93,000 in the Kod.agu (Coorg) district
of Karnataka bordering on Kerala. ..........."

I hope that helps

Best wishes

-- Jean-Luc Chevillard (CNRS, Université Paris 7)


At 20:25 15/12/2006, you wrote:

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>In a recent Lincom catalogue (projectline 16, 2006) they listed a book on
>Kodava as follows (on pg. 50)
>
>**************************************************************************
>      LWM 104: Kodava
>
>Karen Ebert
>Universitaet Zuerich
>
>Kodava is a South Dravidian language spoken by approximately 70,000 people
>in Coorg, Karnataka. Although some Kodava claim that they speak a dialect
>of Kannada, their language is closer to Tamil. The Kannada script is used
>for writing Kodava. Kodava shares all the well-known traits of South
>Dravidian languages, such as exclusively suffixing morphology, strict SOV
>word order with modifiers preceding their head, dative subjects, the use
>of converbs and participles in subordination. Apart from the retroflex
>consonants Kodava has central vowel phonemes.
>
>Earlier publications on Kodava are a grammar from 1867 and articles on the
>vowels and on morphophonemic processes in verb stems. This description is
>based on work with a native speaker.
>
>ISBN 3 89586 038 7. Languages of the World/Materials 104. 57 pp. 1996.
>
>ref.no.: ISBN 3 89586 038 7
>price: EUR 34,00
>USD 40,80
>incl. 7% VAT/MWST/TVA
>
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>
>
>My question is, is this the same as Kodagu (a.k.a. Coorg) or is this a
>different language? Ethnologue states that Kodagu has 120,000 speakers,
>but doesn't list Kodava as a separate language, while this report says
>there are only 70,000 speakers.  The term "Kodava" is totally new to me,
>but Ethnologue does say there are dialects of Kodagu with this name.
>Anybody have any information on this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Hal Schiffman
>
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