LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:5 May 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Languages in Kodagu
(A District in Karnataka, India)

Prof. B. Mallikarjun

Introduction

Kodagu, popularly known as Coorg, also is a district in Karnataka, India. It is the smallest district in the state. Coorg is well-known for its coffee and orange estates. It is famous as the district from which two Chiefs of the Indian Army came, and also as a major contributor of soldiers to Indian Defence Forces for generations. It has a unique distinction of being geographically intact for centuries and has independent census records from 1872 unlike other districts of the state.

Coorg

The Census of India by the British recognizes Kodagu as a home of two indigenous mother tongues and principal languages of the province: Kodava and Yerava. Here it is intended to describe the linguistic composition of this unique district from the available census records.

The British took over Kodagu on April 4, 1834. The Linguistic Survey of India (Vol IV) cites from Caldwell’s grammar that ‘Coorg is a small but interesting district, formerly an independent principality… The native spelling of Coorg is usually kodagu properly kudagu, west, a meaning of the word which is usual in Ancient Tamil…’ (P 282). Now, Kodagu is one of the 30 districts in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is 4104 square kilometers in area and known as a tiny district. The maximum length of the district from North to South is 96 kilometers and maximum breadth from East to West is 64 kilometers. It is adjacent to Kerala state. On other sides, Mysore, Hassan and Dakshina Kannada districts encircle Kodagu. It has three talukas: Madikeri, Somvarpet and Virajpet. The latest Census of India -2011 records its population as 5,54,519 persons. Among them 4,73,531 persons reside in the rural and 80,988 persons in the urban areas.

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Prof. B. Mallikarjun
Former Director
Centre for Classical Kannada
Central University of Karnataka
Kadaganchi, Aland Road, Kalaburagi District - 585311
Karnataka, India
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