Bellari language

For other uses, see Bellari (disambiguation).

Bellari is a Dravidian variety of India spoken by about 1,000 Bellara, a Scheduled Caste of Karnataka and Kerala. It is reportedly close to Tulu and Koraga (especially the former),^[1] but it is not known if it is a separate language or a dialect of Tulu.^[2] A community of fifty families of basket-weavers lives in Kundapura Taluk in coastal Karnataka.^[3]

Bellari
Belari
ಬೆಳ್ಳಾರಿ / ബെല്ലാരി
Native to	India
Region	Karnataka & Kerala
Native speakers	1,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Dravidian South Dravidian South Dravidian I Southwestern Dravidian Bellari
Writing system	Kannada script, Malayalam script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	brw
Glottolog	bell1261
ELP	Bellari

References

1. Bellari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Sanford Steever, 1998, The Dravidian Languages
3. Govt. owned website. "Karnatakada Budakattu Bhashegalu". Bangalore: Classical Kannada.org. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2013.