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A Phonological Overview of the Hebbar Iyengar Language

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Abstract

This paper deals the phonology of the language variety spoken by the Hebbar Iyengar community, a Brahmin community traditionally based in the southern regions of Karnataka state in southern India, particularly in the districts of Haasan, Tumkur, Mandya, Kolar, Bangalore and Mysore. This unwritten variety, with no reliable statistics, essentially comprises a substratum closely related to Tamil (the majority and official language of neighbouring Tamil Nadu state), but with considerable lexical influence from Kannada (the majority and official language of Karnataka). All the languages in question belong to the Dravidian family of languages.

Original languageEnglish
Pages1-11
Publication statusPublished - 2013
EventICOLSI 2013: 35th Annual and 1st International Conference of Linguistic Society of India - Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India
Duration: 27 Nov 201329 Nov 2013

Conference

ConferenceICOLSI 2013: 35th Annual and 1st International Conference of Linguistic Society of India
CityMysore, India
Period27/11/1329/11/13

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