Beary bashe
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| Beary bashe ???Byari |
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| Spoken in: | India | |||
| Region: | Tulunadu | |||
| Total speakers: | 250,000(est.) | |||
| Language family: | Dravidian Southern Tamil-Kannada Tamil-Malayalam Beary bashe |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |||
| ISO 639-2: | dra | |||
| ISO 639-3: | ??? | |||
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Beary bashe or Naaknik baase is a Dravidian language spoken by a religious minority of Muslim community called Bearys in a region known as Tulunadu in the state of Karnataka. It has no script of its own and uses the Kannada language script. It has words from all Dravidian languages like Tulu, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam also few Arabic and Konkani words. It is more similar to the neighboring Malayalam language dialects used in the Malabar district of state of Kerala.
It is claimed that Beary bashe is the only language in world spoken just by Muslims[citation needed]. Comparisons are made to Yiddish and other Jewish specific languages used by the various Jewish minorities around the world. However, this claim is not true as another minor community of Dakshina Kannada namely Belchadas do speak this dialect.
[edit] Selected Vocabulary
me = Naañ
you = Neen
you(respectfull) = Ningha
they = ahnghaa
name = peyr
town = Raaya
no = ille
yes = okku
why = yendug
where = yowde
what = yende
what's your name = ninde peyr yendre ?
where are you ? = yowde ulle neen?
Had your lunch? = choor unduth aaitha?
don't want = beynda
Boy = Aan
Girl = Penn
Man = Aannighaa
Woman = pennighaa
River = poley
Well = kena
Stream = Todü
Lake = Koolá
Bridge = Sanká
Dog = Nayee
Cat = Putchè
Cow = Pai
Hand = Kay
Leg = Kaal
Hair = Mudi
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Beary lyricist and composer [1]
- Beary book on Namaz (Islamic prayer) [2]
- Article which refutes claim that Beary bashe is only spoken by Muslims [3]
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