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The Kodagu district is famous for spicy pork curries ( pig curry ) while coastal Karnataka specializes in seafood.
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Kodava Takk or Kodava takka, ( Kannada script: ಕ ೊ ಡವ ತಕ ್) is the original language of the south Karnataka district of Kodagu.
* Ethnologue report for Kodava takk – note however that this reference uses the district name, Kodagu, rather than the language name, which it mentions later.
Kodagu, also known by its anglicised former name of Coorg, is an administrative district in Karnataka, India.
Lately, some organizations including the Codava National Council and Kodava Rashtriya Samiti are demanding Kodava homeland status and autonomy to Kodagu district.
Kodagu is the second coffee production region in India, after the Baba Budangiri hills in Chikkamagaluru district.
It is the third least populous district in Karnataka ( out of 30 ), after Kodagu and Bangalore Rural.
It is located by Brahmagiri hill ( not to be confused with the Brahmagiri range further south ) near Bhagamandala in Kodagu district, Karnataka, 1, 276 m. above sea level.
To the east the district is bounded by the Western Ghats, which forms the border with Karnataka State, in its district of Kodagu.
Arebhashe or Gowda Kannada is a dialect of the Kannada language, particularly, spoken by the people belonging to ‘ Gowda ’ community ( among Hindus ) who are the natives of Madikeri, Somwarpet, Virajpet, Bhagamandala and Kushalanagara of Kodagu district and Sullia of Dakshina Kannada.
It is situated on the border between Kodagu district in Karnataka state in the north and Wayanad district of Kerala state on the south.
This after-school resource center, the first of which was set up in Thithimati in Kodagu district, aims to provide an enabling and learning environment for underprivileged children.
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It is the primary language of Kodavas, but a large portion of other communities and tribes in Kodagu also use Kodava Takk.
Kodagu is well known in the world for coffee and its " brave warriors ", like Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa.
Map of South Indian states prior to the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. Kodagu ( then called Coorg ) is in dark green.
The main river in Kodagu is the Kaveri ( Cauvery ), which originates at Talakaveri, located on the eastern side of the Western Ghats, and with its tributaries, drains the greater part of Kodagu.
The Coffea arabica variety is also grown in some parts of southern and western Kodagu, the historical area of coffee production.
Continuous weeding is required for the growth of good quality coffee. The coffee agro-forestry systems of Kodagu are one of the richest agro-forest in the world, with about 270 species of shaded trees inventoried ( see publications of CAFNET project ).
Kodagu is considered rich with wildlife and has three wildlife sanctuaries and one national park: the Brahmagiri, Talakaveri, and Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuaries, and the Nagarhole National Park, also known as the Rajiv Gandhi National Park.
Kodagu is home to many communities with diverse ethnic origins, with Kodavas being the main ethnic group.
Kaveri rises in the Western Ghats of Kodagu ( Coorg ) District, in Karnataka, and is joined by many small tributaries.
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Though the language has no script, recently German linguist Gregg M. Cox developed a new writing system for the language known as the Coorgi-Cox alphabet, used by a number of individuals within Kodagu.
Despite the Kodavas being known in India as " brave warriors " and members of the Indian warrior caste, Kodagu did not have indigenous rulers for long as the Kodavas failed to evolve political consensus.
Endangered as a culture and language and with the exploitation of the farms and forests of Kodagu, the indigenous Kodavas seek autonomy for Kodagu ; to be governed by a hill council consisting of their own elders like those existent in Ladakh ( Leh and Kargil ), Darjeeling and the North-east ( Bodoland, Karbi, Dima, Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram )
Many Kodava people have migrated to areas outside Kodagu, to other Indian cities and regions, predominantly to Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Ooty, Chennai, Mumbai, Kerala, Hyderabad and Delhi for better job prospects.
While there is no definite consensus as to which theory is correct, historians agree that they have lived in Kodagu for over a thousand years, hence they are the area's oldest inhabitants.
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