Toda

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a member of an Indigenous Dravidian people of the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu, southern India

   A Toda artisan explained the symbolic embroidery on the ceremonial cloak.

2. 2
   noun

   the Dravidian language traditionally spoken by the Toda people

   Community projects are producing new recordings and teaching materials in Toda.

3. 3
   adj

   relating to the Toda people, their language, or their culture

   The museum consulted Toda representatives about the displayed objects.

The established English name of the people and language, probably borrowed through regional South Indian usage; its deeper origin is uncertain. Toda may be unchanged as a collective plural, while Todas also occurs in English.

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