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According to her, there are too many important differences in the phonology and the grammar, differences in gender system, case system, verb classes, to claim a genetic relationship between Kannada and Badaga languages. "Today, it is recognized as a separate language," said Pilot-Raichoor, who has been working on the linguistic heritage of the Badaga language for the past two decades.
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She was in town recently to do some research work. UDHAGAMANDALAM: "The Badaga language, widely believed to be a dialect of Kannada, was the language of communication of ancient South Dravidians and shares similarities with the local Alu Kurumba tongue," said Christiane Pilot-Raichoor, a linguistic French scholar from LACITO, a scientific research centre in Paris.
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