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Badaga language
Badaga (''Tamil'': படகா, ''Kannada'': ಬಡಗ ) is a southern Dravidian language (Old Kannada language branch) spoken by approximately 400,000 people in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu. It is known for its retroflex vowels. It has similarities with neighbouring Kannada language and it was earlier considered as a dialect of Kannada and now identified as an independent language. The word Badaga refers to the Badaga language as well as the Badaga indigenous people who speak it.
==Sounds==
Badaga has five vowels qualities, , all of which may be long or short and in the 1930s were contrastively half and fully retroflexed, for a total of 30 vowel phonemes.〔Emenau (1931) reports no tokens of , but suggests this is an accidental gap.〕 Current speakers only distinguish retroflection for a few vowels.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=UCLA Phonetics Lab )〕
Note on transcription: rhoticity indicates half-retroflexion; doubled it indicates full retroflexion.
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