Coorgi

E658094

Coorgi is an alternate name for the Kodava language spoken by the Kodava people of the Coorg (Kodagu) region in Karnataka, India.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Coorgi canonical 4
Coorgi-Kodava 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language
alternateName Kodava language
associatedWith Coorg region
linked to: Coorg

Kodava culture
belongsToBranch Tamil–Kannada branch
closelyRelatedTo Kannada language
linked to: Kannada

Kodagu Kannada dialects
Tulu language
linked to: Tulu
country India
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Kodava people
geographicDistribution South India
Western Ghats region
linked to: Western Ghats
hasAlternateName Coorg
Coorgi
hasCulturalRole marker of Kodava identity
medium of traditional songs and dances
hasDialect standard Kodava
hasGlottocode koda1255
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature dravidian vowel system
retroflex consonants
hasWordOrder SOV
ISO639_3Code kfa
languageFamily Dravidian languages
languageStatus minority language
nameInEnglish Coorgi
nativeTo Kodagu region
linked to: Kodagu district
primarySpeakers Kodava people
recognizedAs distinct language from Kannada by many linguists
region Coorg
scriptUsage occasionally Latin script
primarily Kannada script
spokenIn India
Karnataka
Kodagu district
state Karnataka
subfamily Southern Dravidian languages
linked to: Southern Dravidian
usedBy Kodava diaspora communities
usedFor daily communication in Kodagu
folk songs
oral traditions
rituals
writingSystem Kannada script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kodava alternateName Coorgi
Coorgi nameInEnglish Coorgi
Kodava language hasAlternateName Coorgi
subject linked to: Coorgi
Kodagu language hasAlternativeTransliteration Coorgi-Kodava
linked to: Coorgi