Sholaga language

Sholaga
Soliga
Native to	India
Region	Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
Ethnicity	Soliga
Native speakers	24,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Tamil? Kannada? Sholaga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sle
Glottolog	shol1240[2]

The Sholaga (Soliga) language is a Dravidian language related to Kannada and Tamil, spoken by the Soliga people.

Other names

Sholaga (Soliga) language, is also known as Kadu Sholigar, Sholiga, Sholigar, Solaga, Soliga, Soligar, Solanayakkans, Sholanayika.

Classification

Sholaga is classified as a Dravidian language, more specifically South Dravidian. Dravidian languages are split into five main categories by the name of Southern, South Central, Central, North and Unclassified. Sholaga falls into the Southern category which is then split into the three categories: Tamil-Kannada, Macro-Tulu, and unclassified. Sholaga falls into the Tamil-Kannada category.

Words

English	Sholaga
Tiger	dodinayi
elephant	coquedana
elephant with huge tusks	coquedonga
female elephant with growing tusks	coreyani
deer	jinke
Sambar deer	kadave
Moss Deer	koore
Muntjac/barking deer	tadu-koori
Area with boulders and rarely any rain	udugaru
An evergreen forest	kanu-kadu

References

1. Sholaga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sholaga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links

• OLAC resources
• Si, A. (2011). ScholarSpace at University of Hawaii at Manoa: Documenting traditional biological and ecological knowledge: An Indian example