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TheSholaga (IPA:[ʃoːlɐɡɐ,s-]) language is aDravidian language related toKannada andTamil, spoken by theSoliga people. It's also known as Kadu Sholigar, Sholiga, Sholigar, Solaga, Solega, Soliga, Soligar, Solanayakkans, Sholanayika.

Sholaga is classified as aDravidian language, more specifically South Dravidian. Dravidian languages are split into five main categories by the name of Southern, South Central, Central, North and Unclassified. Sholaga falls into the Southern category which is then split into the three categories: Tamil-Kannada, Macro-Tulu, and unclassified. Sholaga falls into theTamil-Kannada category.

The tables present the vowel and the consonant phonemes of Sholaga.^[2]

Zvelebil had listed centralized <ä, ǟ> in the phonology. The real quality distinguishing <ä, ǟ> and <a, ā> isn't clear.

• There are phonemic nasal vowels and all plain vowels have nasal counterparts, mostly from old final nasals, eg. akkã "sister", mö̃yi "body".

• /s/ in free variation with [ʃ] and does not clash with /t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ/.
• p- > h- > ∅-, eg. So. aga, Kn. hoge; So. haḍagu, Kn. haḍagu. There are initial p- too, e.g. paḍḍe.
• /ɖ, ɽ/ are distinct, eg. nōṛ- "see", ōḍ- "run".
• No k- palatalization like Kananda, eg. So. kimi, Kn. kivi, Ta. cevi.
• Rare g>ṅ, eg. So. maṅa, Kn. maganu.

Source:^[2]

• The formative morpheme *-ay is -a, eg. iṯappay "eyelid": Ka. rappe, Sh. ṟappa.
• Like Irula and nearby Nilagiri languages, it lacks the oblique form in compounds with determinans followed by determinatum, eg. kāḍu aṉḏi "forest pig": Ta. kāṭṭu (< kāṭu) paṉṟi.
• Unlike Jenu Kuruba, it has rich use of plural forms. Most take -ga, most ending with -ã take -diru, others take -ru.
• Most cases are like Kannada but not identical.
• There are only 2 tense stems: past/non-past but its more like verb finished vs unfinished. From the past preterite tense is fromed and from non-past the present-future tense.

• OLAC resources
• Si, A. (2011). ScholarSpace at University of Hawaii at Manoa: Documenting traditional biological and ecological knowledge: An Indian example

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