Bellari language explained

Bellari
States:India
Region:Karnataka & Kerala
Speakers:1,000
Date:2007
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Dravidian
Fam2:South Dravidian
Fam3:South Dravidian I
Fam4:Southwestern Dravidian
Script:Kannada script, Malayalam script
Iso3:brw
Glotto:bell1261
Glottorefname:Bellari

Bellari is a Dravidian variety of India spoken by about 1,000 Bellara, a Scheduled Caste of Karnataka and Kerala. It is reportedly close to Tulu and Koraga (especially the former), but it is not known if it is a separate language or a dialect of Tulu.[1] A community of fifty families of basket-weavers lives in Kundapura Taluk in coastal Karnataka.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Sanford Steever, 1998, The Dravidian Languages
  2. Web site: Govt. owned website . Karnatakada Budakattu Bhashegalu . Classical Kannada.org . Bangalore . 4 February 2013 . 10 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140110092559/http://www.classicalkannada.org/DataBase/KANNADA%20UNICODE%20HTML/Language%20Kannada%20HTML/TRIBAL%20LABGUAGES%20OF%20KARNNTAKA.htm . dead .