Waddar language

Not to be confused with Od language.

Waddar
Od
Native to	India, Nepal, Pakistan
Region	Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra
Native speakers	170,000 (2001 census)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian South-Central Telugu Waddar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`wbq`
Glottolog	`wadd1237`^[2]

Waddar (Vadari, Od) is a dialect of Telugu language spoken among social caste of Waddars scattered ovel South India, especially in Karnataka, where it has a status of Scheduled caste. Number of speakers is 171,725 (2001 census, listed as Vadari under Telugu). Ethnologue treated it as separate Dravidian language closely related to Telugu, but without clear grounds.

References

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

Chandrashekhar Bhat. Ethnicity and Mobility: Emerging Ethnic Identity and Social Mobility Among the Waddars of South India. Concept Publishing Company, 1984.

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