Kodagu

[ koh-duh-goo ]

noun

1. a former province in SW India; now part of Karnataka state. 1,593 sq. mi. (4,126 sq. km).

Example Sentences

These are coffee pickers in Kodagu, India, in 2010.

From New York Times

The various Dravidian languages, with the number of speakers returned at the census of 1901, are as follows:— Tamil 17,494,901 Malayālam 6,022,131 Kanarese 10,368,515 Tulu 535,210 Kodagu 39,191 Toda 805 Kōta 1,300 Kuruχ 609,721 Malto 60,777 Gōndī 1,125,479 Kui 494,099 Telugu 20,697,264 Brāhūī 48,589   ————— Total 57,497,982 Of these Tamil and Malayālam can be considered as two dialects of one and the same language, which is, in its turn, closely related to Kanarese.

From Project Gutenberg

Tulu, Kodagu, Toda and Kōta can be described as lying between Tamil-Malayālam and Kanarese, though they are more nearly related to the latter than to the former.

From Project Gutenberg

They speak Kodagu, a dialect of Hala Kannada or old Kanarese, midway between that and Malayālam.

From Project Gutenberg