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A Badaga and English Dictionary

Glossary and Gazetteer

Paul Hockings author Christiane Pilot-Raichoor author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Published:14th Jul '24

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In three parts, The two authors were jointly responsible for the first version of this Badaga Dictionary (Berlin 1992). It is now extensively revised and ex­panded to two volumes, and – unique for a Dravidian dictionary – it includes some 2000 local place-names. The vocabulary documented here was partly collected by the two authors during long-term fieldwork, but otherwise came from records of Badaga folk literature. Although there are several dialects of the language, these have not yet been sys­tematically studied; but dialectal variations are nonetheless recorded wherever they are known. An introductory essay examines the status of the language, while another essay outlines the cultural history of the Badaga people. Many entries here include the bibliographic references to the extensive Nilgiri regional literature, and these will prove invaluable to natural scientists, even those not concerned with the Badaga language.

ISBN: 9789391928179

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1030 pages