Badaga (Noun)
Meaning 1
A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The Badaga people have traditionally resided in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India for centuries.
- Badaga farmers are known for their expertise in cultivating tea and other crops in challenging mountainous terrain.
- A significant portion of the Badaga population still practices their traditional way of life in the Nilgiri Hills.
- The Badaga community has a rich cultural heritage, with unique customs and traditions that set them apart from other groups in southern India.
- Badaga villages are often situated on the slopes of the Nilgiri Hills, providing breathtaking views of the surrounding landscape.
Meaning 2
The dialect of Kannada that is spoken by the Badaga.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Nilgiris is the only region in the world where Badaga is widely spoken and preserved among its inhabitants.
- As Badaga language evolved independently over time it started borrowing some distinct grammatical forms that have taken an orientation slightly diverging from that of other regional languages in Kannada.
- Researchers trying to map dialect distribution had Badaga sampled due to strong suspicion it formed with co linguistic migration processes linked and proven between one from earlier on going across districts away region areas
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