Toda language

Toda
தோடா
Native toIndia
RegionNilgiri Hills
Native speakers
1,600 (2001 census)[1]
Dravidian
Tamil alphabet (Brahmic)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3tcx
Glottologtoda1252
ELPToda

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]

  1. ^ Toda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Toda language and script, Omniglot.
  3. ^ Krishnamurti (2003).