Bellari

A language of India

ISO 639-3

Population

1,000 (Van Driem 2007).

Location

Karnataka; Kerala; Tamil Nadu.

Language Maps

Language Status

7 (Shifting).

Classification

Dialects

Related to Tulu [tcy] and Koraga [kfd].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%.

Language Resources

Other Comments

Bellara is a Scheduled Caste in Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. Speak a dialect of Kannada [kan] (Singh 1995).