Sholaga language

The Sholaga (Soliga) language is a Dravidian language related to Kannada and Tamil, spoken by the Soliga people.

Other names

Sholaga language, is also known as Kadu Sholigar, Sholiga, Sholigar, Solaga, Solega, Soliga, Soligar, Solanayakkans, Sholanayika.

Phonology

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Vowels

	Front		Central				Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long	short	long
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Mid	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
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Zvelebil had listed centralized <ä, ǟ> in the phonology. The real quality distinguishing <ä, ǟ> and <a, ā> isn't clear.

• There are phonemic nasal vowels.

Consonants

Consonants

		Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal/ Pst.alv	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink		Template:IPAlink
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
	voiced	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
Fricative			Template:IPAlink				Template:IPAlink
Approximant		Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink
Rhotic			Template:IPAlink⠀Template:IPAlink	Template:IPAlink

• /s/ in free variation with [ʃ].

Classification

Sholaga is classified as a Dravidian language, more specifically South Dravidian. Dravidian languages are split into five main categories by the name of Southern, South Central, Central, North and Unclassified. Sholaga falls into the Southern category which is then split into the three categories: Tamil-Kannada, Macro-Tulu, and unclassified. Sholaga falls into the Tamil-Kannada category.

Words

English	Sholaga
tiger	dodinayi
elephant	coquedana
elephant with huge tusks	coquedonga
female elephant with growing tusks	coreyani
deer	Maan
Sambar deer	kadave
Chital	saraga
Moss Deer	koore
muntjac	tadu-koori
Area with boulders and rarely any rain	udugaru
An evergreen forest	Patchai kadu

External links

• OLAC resources
• Si, A. (2011). ScholarSpace at University of Hawaii at Manoa: Documenting traditional biological and ecological knowledge: An Indian example

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