Toda language

Toda
Toda
Native to	India
Region	Nilgiri Hills
Native speakers	1,600 (2001 census)
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Toda–Kota Toda; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tamil alphabet (Brahmic)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tcx
Glottolog	toda1252
ELP	Toda

Toda is a Dravidian language noted for its many fricatives and trills. It is spoken by the Toda people, a population of about one thousand who live in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India. The Toda language originated from Toda-Kota subgroup of South Dravidian. Krishnamurti (2003) doesn't consider a single Toda-Kota branch and says Kota split first and later Toda did as Kota doesn't have the centralized vowels of other Tamil-Toda languages.^[3]

^ Toda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Toda language and script, Omniglot.
^ Krishnamurti (2003).

[e18-1] Toda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Toda language and script, Omniglot.

[FOOTNOTEKrishnamurti2003-3] Krishnamurti (2003).

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