But, taking into consideration the younger generation who are going to be the future hope and the irrefutable fact that they are all more familiar with English than Tamil, the choice is English. Yes, it is indeed a little tricky to choose between Tamil and English. ‘Kalla – a male name’ sounds the same as ‘ kaLLa – a thief. On the other hand, in English, we cannot clearly bring out the difference of ‘na’ from ‘Na’ or ‘halli – lizard’ from ‘haLLi – name, village’. Another drawback could be the absence of ‘Ha’ in classical Tamil. ‘Gaasu – potato’ is totally differnt from ‘Kaasu – coin, remove’. This makes a huge impact when Badaga words are written in Tamil script. In Tamil script we cannot differentiate ‘K’ from ‘G’ or ‘T’ from ‘D’.
So are ‘kallu – stone’ and ‘KaLLu – a drink’.
Bella or BeLLa are two entirely differnt things. For example,a subtle change in context of the word ‘BAE ‘ could mean mouth, bangle, lentil, crop etc. Even a small change in pronounciation could result in an entirely different meaning in Badaga. Badaga ,like many other Indian languages, has very definitive and distintive sounds/words that distinguishes one word from another. Hence the choice between Tamil and English. īut when trying to choose a script for Badaga, Kannada script is ruled out for the basic reason that most of us do not know the language or familiar with the script and no scope to learn it in our schools in the Nilgiris.
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Three scripts come to mind straight away – Tamil, English and Kannada.Tamil – because a majority of us know how to speak and write due to the simple fact that we belong to Tamil Nadu, English – since most of us choose to learn as well as put our children in English medium schools and Kannada – due to the fact that Badaga is more akin to Kannada than any other language. But the urge to have a separate script has convinced me that it is very much possible to ‘ADOPT’ an existing script and ‘ADAPT’ it to Badaga language. I am no expert on phonetics or languages or much less innovating an unique script. But unfortunately, to my knowledge, no records exists, if any. Many have attempted to achieve this objective with various degrees of success. So too is the necessity of a script for Badaga. But of course, the script need not be peculiar and specific one pertaining to that particular language. It cannot remain only as a spoken language for long. BADAGA SCRIPT – BADAGA BARAE It has always been felt that for a language to survive, it should have its own script.
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