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Badugu Maathu - The Badugu Language
Badugu Maathu - The Badugu Language
Badugu Maathu (The Badugu language) is as old as other South-Dravidian languages and has undergone separate linguistic development, for other South-Dravidian languages had relatively little or no influence on Badugu. The autonomous status of Badugu has been hinted at in “Language and Society in South Asia by Michael C.Shapiro and Harold F.Schiffman, 1981:100”.
Badugu Maathu (The Badugu language) is as old as other South-Dravidian languages and has undergone separate linguistic development, for other South-Dravidian languages had relatively little or no influence on Badugu. The autonomous status of Badugu has been hinted at in “Language and Society in South Asia by Michael C.Shapiro and Harold F.Schiffman, 1981:100”.
There are no written records to tell us what the original Dravidian language was like and the original home of the Dravidians and the date of dispersal of the original Dravidian stock. But one thing is certain that the original Dravidian language was broken up into various dialects which underwent separate linguistic development. The characteristics Badugu shares with other South-Dravidian languages point to their origin in a single language of the South-Dravidian family which could be reconstructed as the Proto-South-Dravidian.
There are no written records to tell us what the original Dravidian language was like and the original home of the Dravidians and the date of dispersal of the original Dravidian stock. But one thing is certain that the original Dravidian language was broken up into various dialects which underwent separate linguistic development. The characteristics Badugu shares with other South-Dravidian languages point to their origin in a single language of the South-Dravidian family which could be reconstructed as the Proto-South-Dravidian.
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