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Toda language
| Toda | |
|---|---|
| தோடா | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Western Tamil Nadu state, Nilgiri Hills, near Ootacamund |
Native speakers | 1,600 (2001 census)[1] |
Dravidian
| |
| unwritten[2] provisionally written in Tamil alphabet (Brahmic) and Latin[3][better source needed] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tcx |
| Glottolog | toda1252 |
| ELP | Toda |
 Toda is classified as Critically Endangered according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[4][2] | |
Toda is a indigenous 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 is considered to have originated from the Toda-Kota subgroup of South Dravidian. Krishnamurti (2003) does not consider the existence of 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.[5]
- ^ Toda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Did you know Toda is endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
- ^ Toda language and script, Omniglot.
- ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 31.
- ^ Krishnamurti (2003).
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