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Badaga enthicity
#BADAGA ENTHICITY FULL#
Note on transcription: rhoticity ⟨ ◌˞⟩ indicates half-retroflexion doubled ⟨ ◌˞˞⟩ it indicates full retroflexion. Current speakers only distinguish retroflection for a few vowels. and ethnic setting of Badaga society, social structure (particularly the clan and. Life and Well-Being in an Indian Ethnic Community: The Case of Badagas. This source is concerned with sociocultural change among the Badagas. Badaga has five vowels qualities, /i e a o u/, each of which may be long or short and until the 1930s were contrastively half and fully retroflexed, for a total of 30 vowel phonemes. The Badagas are an ethno-linguistic community living in the Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu.