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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.
The Toda language is a member of the Dravidian family. The language is typologically aberrant and phonologically difficult. Linguists have classified Toda (along with its neighbour Kota) as a member of the southern subgroup of the historical family proto-South-Dravidian. It split off from South Dravidian, after Kannada, but before Malayalam.
Dec 18, 2015 · First, let’s examine how Yoda doesn’t speak. Many of the world’s most-spoken languages—English, Mandarin—are built around constructions that go subject-verb-object.
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The Toda are tribal pastoral people who live in the Nilgiri Hills. Also known as the Todava, Ton and Tutavar, they have received a great deal of attention over the years from anthropologists because of their unusual marriage customs and other cultural features. They have always been a small group. A Jesuit priest said there were “about a thousand” ...
The Toda have traditionally believed in a world of the dead and the world of the living. In there scheme there is no hell; those who have lived meritorious lives have less trouble reaching the world of the dead. Their pantheon of gods and spirits includes “gods of the mountains” that reside in the Nilgiri Hills. The most important deity is Tokisy, ...
The Toda have developed a cult that revolves around sacred cows and dairies. They believe that God resides within their herds of buffalo which also provide them milk and butter. The so called “sacred cows” (in this case buffalo) have traditionally been more than simply objects of worship. According to Cambridge anthropologist William Rivers, they p...
Toda traditionally believed that individuals need two funerals to enter the Land of the Dead. In the first funeral the deceased was cremated. In the second a fragment of bone or a lock of hair was burned. The two funerals were very similar. These days the second funeral is no longer held and rites that were conducted at the second funeral have been...
Marriage for the Toda have traditionally been regarded as an alliance in which a male married a female of any age—preferably the mother’s brother’s daughter to the father’s sister’s daughter— and she entered the male’s patriarchal family. Negotiations for the marriage often began when the coup was two or three and continued until the reached maturi...
The Toda practiced polyandry in the old days because there was a shortage of women. A woman took several husbands (as opposed to polygamy, where a man has several wives). According to anthropologists the Nilgiri Hills and the Himalayas are the only places on earth where polyandry has been practiced. One of the problems with polyandry is that it lea...
Toda men traditionally have taken care of water buffalo while women have done housework although men have often helped out with the cooking. Today. agricultural work is done by both men and women. Many women devote large amounts of time to doing embroidery. Property is often handed over to sons before death. Daughters generally don’t receive anythi...
Toda society has traditionally been divided into two subcastes: one that owned the sacred dairy cows and the other which milked the cows and operated the dairies. Villages generally don’t have a headman. Decisions are made by an all male caste councils. Because the Toda often recognize the suzerainty of the Badaga sometimes Badaga leaders are calle...
In the late 1980s there were 64 permanently-occupied Today hamlets, including three Christian ones. There used to be several dry season and wet season hamlets that were used when the Toda migrated with their cattle. These have mostly been abandoned, mostly because the grazing land is no good anymore. A traditional Toda hamlet. known a s a “mund”, e...
The lives and the economy of the Toda has traditionally revolved their herds of female, long-horned, short-legged and aggressive mountain water buffalo. Being vegetarians, the herds of buffalo provided them with milk and butter. Male calves were sold to Nilgiri butchers. Wealth traditionally has been measured in terms of buffalo and buffalo paraphe...
Toda is a Southern Dravidian language spoken in the Nilgiri and Kunda Hills in Tamil Nadu state in southern India. In 2001 there were 1,600 speakers of Toda, which is also known as Todi or Tuda.
A Dravidian language affiliated with Tamil-Malayalam, Toda may have emerged as a separate language in the third century b.c. It has no written form. Most Toda speak Tamil and Badagu in addition to their mother tongue .
Toda, pastoral tribe of the Nīlgiri Hills of southern India. Numbering only about 800 in the early 1960s, they were rapidly increasing in population because of improved health facilities. The Toda language is Dravidian but is the most aberrant of that linguistic stock. The Toda live in settlements.
