Badaga (படக பாஷை)

Badaga is a Southern Dravidian language spoken by about 400,000 people in the India state of Tamil Nadu, especially in the Nigliri Hills. It is closely related to Kannada.

Various ways have been devised to write Badaga using the Latin and Kannada alphabets, and in 2009 a new alphabet based on Tamil was invented by Anandhan Raju, a native speaker of Badaga from Thangadu Oranaai who works as a teacher in Chamraj.

Badaga (Badugu) alphabet

Notable features

Badaga vowels with their Tamil equivalents

Badaga vowels with their Tamil equivalents

Vowel diacritics with ka

Badaga vowel diacritics

Badaga consonants with their Tamil equivalents

Badaga consonants with their Tamil equivalents

Links

Information about the Badaga language and alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badaga_language
http://www.skyknowledge.com/badaga.htm
http://badaga-script.blogspot.co.uk
http://badaga.wordpress.com/language/
http://badaga-language.blogspot.co.uk/

Dravidian languages

Badaga, Brahui, Gondi, Jatapu, Kannada, Kodava, Kolam, Konda, Koya, Kurukh, Malayalam, Mukha Dora, Savara, Sunuwar, Tamil, Telugu, Tulu, Yerukula

Syllabic alphabets / abugidas

Ahom, Badaga, Balinese, Batak, Baybayin (Tagalog), Bengali, Brahmi, Buhid, Burmese, Chakma, Cham, Dehong Dai, Devanagari, Dhives Akuru, Ethiopic, Evēla Akuru, Gondi, Grantha, Gujarati, Gupta, Gurmukhi, Hanuno'o, Javanese, Jenticha, Kaithi, Kannada, Kharosthi, Khmer, Khojki, Kulitan, Lanna, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manpuri, Modi, Mongolian Horizontal Square Script, New Tai Lue, Oriya, Pahawh Hmong, Pallava, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Redjang, Shan, Sharda, Siddham, Sindhi, Sinhala, Sorang Sompeng, Sourashtra, Soyombo, Sundanese, Syloti Nagri, Tagbanwa, Takri, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tikamuli, Tocharian, Tolong Siki, Tulu, Varang Kshiti

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