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The Todas are a small community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau in S. India. They lived there in aboriginal days, i.e. prior to the early 19th cent., in coexist. with other jungle communities. The local social org. was a cast-like system in which the Todas were the top-ranking community. Their population is a minuscule group within the enormous population of India or of the Dravidian part of India. However, the Todas have attracted a disproportionate amount of attention because of their difference from their neighbors in appearance, manners & customs. This study was based on linguistic data collected in a year of contact with the Todas in the 3-year period from mid-1935 to mid-1938. Contents: Grammar; Texts with Translation; & Commentary.
Price: $80.00
Pages: 426
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date:
January 1, 1984
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9780871691552
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LANGUAGE STUDY / Indic Languages
"[A] remarkable achievement…Emeneau has provided a permanent monument to the Toda language and an indispensable source for Dravidian studies."
— T. Burrow
"[This book] surpasses everything else written about the Toda language and will for years come to stand as the authoritative grammar of the language."
— Sanford B. Steever
— T. Burrow
"[This book] surpasses everything else written about the Toda language and will for years come to stand as the authoritative grammar of the language."
— Sanford B. Steever