Editing Badaga language (section)

{{Short description|Dravidian language spoken in Southern India}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Badaga
| nativename       = {{lang|bfq-Taml|படக}}, {{lang|bfq-Knda|ಬಡಗ}}, {{lang|bfq-Mlym|ബഡഗ}}
| state            = [[India]]
| region           = [[Tamil Nadu]] ([[The Nilgiris District|The Nilgiris]]), [[Kerala]] ([[Palakkad district|Palakkad]])
| ethnicity        = [[Badaga people|Badaga]]
| speakers         = 134,000
| date             = 2011 census
| ref              = e24
| familycolor      = Dravidian
| fam2             = Southern
| fam3             = [[South Dravidian languages|Southern I]]
| fam4             = Tamil–[[Kannada dialects|Kannada]]
| fam5             = [[Kannada dialects|Kannada–Badaga]]
| iso3             = bfq
| glotto           = bada1257
| glottorefname    = Badaga
| script           = [[Grantha Script|Grantha script]] ([[Pallava Script|Pallava]], [[Vatteluttu script|Vatteluttu]] and [[Koleluttu|Koleluttu]])
| notice           = IPA
}}

'''Badaga''' is a southern [[Dravidian language]] spoken by the [[Badagas|Badaga]] people of the [[Nilgiris district]] of [[Tamil Nadu]]. The language is closely related to the   [[Kannada]] language with heavy influence from the [[Tamil language|Tamil]] language.<ref>
{{Citation|last=Hockings|first=Paul|title=Badaga|date=2004|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures Volume I: Topics Volume II: Cultures|pages=572–578|editor-last=Ember|editor-first=Carol R.|place=Boston, MA|publisher=Springer US|language=en|doi=10.1007/0-387-29905-x_57|isbn=978-0-387-29905-1|editor2-last=Ember|editor2-first=Melvin}}</ref> Of all the tribal languages spoken in Nilgiris (Badaga, [[Toda language]], [[Kota language (India)]]), Badaga is the most spoken 
language.