Bellari language

For other uses, see Bellari (disambiguation).

Bellari
Native to	India
Region	Karnataka & Kerala
Native speakers	1,000 (2007)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tulu? Bellari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`brw`
Glottolog	`bell1261`^[2]

Bellari is a Dravidian variety of India spoken by about 1,000 Bellara, a Scheduled Caste of Karnataka and Kerala. It is reportedly close to Tulu and Koraga (especially the former),^[1] but it is not known if it is a separate language or a dialect of Tulu.^[3] A community of fifty families of basket-weavers live in Kundapura Taluk in coastal Karnataka.^[4]^[5]

References

1 2 Bellari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bellari". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Sanford Steever, 1998, The Dravidian Languages
↑ Kannada Prabha (Kannada daily). 11 March 2011 http://archives.kannadaprabha.com/News.asp?&Topic=-124&Title=ڇ%20Oګڄs%20߽ګ. Retrieved 4 February 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ Govt. owned website. "Karnatakada Budakattu Bhashegalu". Bangalore: Classical Kannada.org. Retrieved 4 February 2013.

Dravidian languages

Southern

Tamil–Kannada

Kannada-Badaga	Badaga Holiya Kannada Urali

Kodagu	Kodava Kurumba

Malayalam languages	Aranadan Jeseri Kadar Malapandaram Malaryan Malavedan Malayalam Mullu Kurumba Paliyan Paniya Ravula

Tamil languages	Betta Kurumba Eravallan Irula Kaikadi Kanikkaran Muthuvan Tamil Yerukala

Toda-Kota	Kota Toda

Sholaga

Macro-Tulu

unclassified

South-Central

Central

North

Unclassified

Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant)

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