PURPOSE
This is a website dedicated to the learning of the Kodava language, or Kodava-thakk. This is the language of the region of Kodagu, a small and lush region nestled in the Western Ghats of Southeast India. It is spoken primarily by the Kodava people and of many others who reside in Kodagu.
Accelerated by globalization, urbanization, and other processes inherent to contemporary times, the present moment is witness to alarming rates of language extinction. This project is a reaction against this and, more broadly, against erasure.
Above all, this is a living document. As such, feedback of any type — corrections, clarifications, stylistic and methodological concerns, etc. — is essential to continue to improve the ways that we learn the Kodava language.
Accelerated by globalization, urbanization, and other processes inherent to contemporary times, the present moment is witness to alarming rates of language extinction. This project is a reaction against this and, more broadly, against erasure.
Above all, this is a living document. As such, feedback of any type — corrections, clarifications, stylistic and methodological concerns, etc. — is essential to continue to improve the ways that we learn the Kodava language.