Koraga language

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Koraga (also rendered Koragar, Koragara, Korangi) is a Dravidian language spoken by the Koraga people, a Scheduled tribe people of Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka, and Kerala in South West India. The dialect spoken by the Koraga tribe in Kerala, Mudu Koraga, is divergent enough to not be intelligible with Korra Koraga.Template:Sfnp

Classification

Koraga is a member of the Dravidian family of languages.[2][3] It is further classified into the Southern Dravidian family. Koraga is a spoken language and generally not written, whenever it is written it makes use of Kannada script. Koraga people are generally conversant in TuluTemplate:Sfnp and Kannada languages and hence use those languages as a medium for producing literature.

Dialects

According to Bhat, there are 4 dialects:Template:Sfnp

All the speakers who speak Mudu dialect are bilingual with Kannada language and all speaking onti dialect are bilingual with Tulu language.Template:Sfnp This has resulted a strong influence of Kannada on Mudu koraga and also similar influence of Tulu is seen on onti koraga dialect.Template:Sfnp Majority of negative forms of onti koraga language are borrowed from Tulu language.Template:Sfnp

Phonology

Vowels

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Front Central Back
short long short long short long
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Consonants

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Bilabial Dental/
Alveolar
Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
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Stop voiceless Template:IPAlink Template:IPAlink Template:IPAlink Template:IPAlink Template:IPAlink
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Fricative Template:IPAlink
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Rhotic Template:IPAlink

References

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Bibliography

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External links

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