Back Idioma tou AST Тода (мова) Byelorussian Todeg Breton Llengua toda Catalan Idioma toda Spanish Todan kieli Finnish Toda (langue) French टोडा भाषा Hindi Lingua toda Italian トダ語 Japanese
| Toda | |
|---|---|
| தோடா | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Nilgiri Hills |
Native speakers | 1,600 (2001 census)[1] |
Dravidian
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| Tamil alphabet (Brahmic)[2] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tcx |
| Glottolog | toda1252 |
| ELP | Toda |
Toda is a Dravidian language noted for its many fricatives and trills. It is spoken by the Toda people, a population of about one thousand who live in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India. The Toda language originated from Toda-Kota subgroup of South Dravidian. Krishnamurti (2003) doesn't consider a single Toda-Kota branch and says Kota split first and later Toda did as Kota doesn't have the centralized vowels of other Tamil-Toda languages.[3]
- ^ Toda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Toda language and script, Omniglot.
- ^ Krishnamurti (2003).