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Thematic map of South Asia showing the distribution of Dravidian languages, with different regions shaded or marked to indicate where specific Dravidian languages and subgroups are spoken. Most languages are concentrated in southern and central India, with some northern outliers in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and eastern India. A key identifies the languages by number and subgroup, and striped areas indicate regions where several subgroups overlap. South Dravidian languages
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Thematic map of South Asia showing the distribution of Dravidian languages, with different regions shaded or marked to indicate where specific Dravidian languages and subgroups are spoken. Most languages are concentrated in southern and central India, with some northern outliers in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and eastern India. A key identifies the languages by number and subgroup, and striped areas indicate regions where several subgroups overlap.
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Kodagu is a Dravidian language spoken by the Kodagu people in the Coorg district of Karnataka, India. The name "Kodagu" itself may be derived from a Kanarese word meaning "steepness," referring to the mountainous terrain of the region.123

While Kodagu is spoken by the local population, Kannada serves as the official language and the language of education in the area. The Kodagu language is of interest to linguists and anthropologists due to its preservation of certain phonetic features found in Proto-Dravidian, the ancestral language of the Dravidian language family.2

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