Overview
Arrow pointing down

Community Members

    No members

Revitalization Programs

No programs

Discussion Forum

    Comments are not currently available for this post.

Language Information By Source

Kodava speech community: An ethnolinguistic study
Arrow pointing down
Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

97,011

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2001

Location and Context

Countries

India

Coordinates

No data

Location description

The majority of Kodavas live in the Kodagu (Coorg) district.

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

Positive language attitudes; many Kodavas express a strong desire to unite and preserve their linguistic and cultural identity. Despite positive attitudes however, a majority of Kodavas do not support using the language as a medium of education.

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

The majority of Kodavas live in the Kodagu (Coorg) district.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Hindi; Kannada; Malayalam; English

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

High degree of bilingualism.

At risk

Native Speakers Worldwide

166,187

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

11.6952,75.9375

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

241,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

200,000

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

India

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Karnataka, Coorg (Kodagu) District, around Mercara, Malayalam border south.

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

The use of Kodagu is a symbol of identity.

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

Kannada script

Other writing systems

Karnataka, Coorg (Kodagu) District, around Mercara, Malayalam border south.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Kannada; Malayalam; Hindi; English

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

No data

Native Speakers Worldwide

No data

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

12.1666666667,76.8333333333

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

At risk

Native Speakers Worldwide

122,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

No data

Location description

No data

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Media Resources

No resources

No resources

Filter By

No programs

  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  5. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  6. A Grammar of the Kodagu
    Balakrishnan, R. 1977. "A Grammar of the Kodagu." Annamalai: Annamalai University.
  7. Koex͡tsubdotdava
    Ebert, Karen. 1996. "Koex͡tsubdotd." 104: München: Lincom.
  8. Kodava
    Ebert, Karen Heide. 1996. "Kodava." 104: Lincom Europa.