Toda | |
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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]