Endangered Languages Project - Kota (India)

Kota (India)

^{[aka Kotta, Kowe-Adiwasi, Kother-Tamil]}

Classification: Dravidian

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Kotta, Kowe-Adiwasi, Kother-Tamil, Kôta, Kōta
CLASSIFICATION		Dravidian, South Dravidian
ORTHOGRAPHY		Tamil script
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		kfe
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Ko Bashai Each village that speaks Kota has their own form of the language which they call mānt. Mānt also refers to differences in dialect usage vocabulary or region or age of speaker. For example Kanmar Mānt refers to when one group of speakers attempt to exclude others. Kolmel Mānt has been the one that has been the standard for linguistic work on Kota language.
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
900
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2007

DOMAINS OF USE
SPEAKER ATTITUDE: positive attitude
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
Scripts (Writing system): Tamil script

PLACES: India

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Tamil Nadu, Sholur Kokkal, New Kotagiri, Kilkotagiri, Kollimalai, Kundah Kotagiri, Trichicady, and Gudalur settlements; a few in Ooty, Coonoor, Indunagar, Aravankavu, and Wellington; Chennai.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~1,000
Native speakers worldwide

MORE ON VITALITY

"The speakers are bilinguals with more proficiency in Tamil than in Kota."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Tamil

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~1,000
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: India

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press