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The Sholaga (Soliga) language is a Dravidian language related to Kannada and Tamil, spoken by the Soliga people.
Sholaga | |
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Soliga | |
Native to | India |
Region | Karnataka, Tamil Nadu |
Ethnicity | Soliga |
Native speakers | 24,000 (2006)[1] |
Dravidian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sle |
Glottolog | shol1240 |
ELP | Sholaga |
Other names edit
Sholaga language, is also known as Kadu Sholigar, Sholiga, Sholigar, Solaga, Solega, Soliga, Soligar, Solanayakkans, Sholanayika.
Phonology edit
The tables present the vowel and the consonant phonemes of Sholaga.[2]
Vowels edit
Front | Central | Back | ||||||
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short | long | short | long | short | long | short | long | |
High | i | iː | ɨ | ɨː | ʉ | ʉː | u | uː |
Mid | e | eː | ə | əː | ɵ | ɵː | o | oː |
Low | a | aː |
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 edit
Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Retroflex | Palatal/ Pst.alv |
Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n̪ | ɳ | ŋ | |||
Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | t͡ʃ | k | |
voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||
Fricative | s | h | |||||
Approximant | ʋ | l | ɭ | j | |||
Rhotic | ɾ⠀r | ɽ |
- /s/ in free variation with [ʃ].
Classification edit
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 edit
English | Sholaga |
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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 |
References edit
- ^ Sholaga at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Zvelebil (1990), p. 157.
- ^ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-511-06037-3.
Sources edit
- Zvelebil, Kamil V. (1990), The Language of the Shōlegas, Nilgiri Area, South India, Journal of the American Oriental Society
External links edit
- OLAC resources
- Si, A. (2011). ScholarSpace at University of Hawaii at Manoa: Documenting traditional biological and ecological knowledge: An Indian example