The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega A Linguistic Perspective

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Table 4.4

(continued)

Keredimba

Nellikadiru

Ma:rigu

ḍi Mo

ṇakai A:repa:

ḷya

Ved-vented Bulbul

ko

ṭrole

ko

ṭrole

he

ṇṇ

u ko

ṭṭi

‘female

ko

ṭṭi


he

ṇṇ

u ko

ṭṭi

‘female

ko

ṭṭi


Red-whiskered Bulbul

ko

ṭṭipi

ḍiyã

ko

ṭṭipi

ḍiyã

ga

ṇḍ

u ko

ṭṭi

‘male

ko

ṭṭi


ga

ṇḍ

u ko

ṭṭi

‘male

ko

ṭṭi


Jungle Babbler

si:danagari

do

ḍḍ

a si:dagari

‘big

si:danakari


si:dari

si:dari

si:danagari

Puff-throated Babbler

nanna ku:so

‘my

child’

ku:sakki

‘child bird’

nanna ku:so hakki

‘my

child bird’

wagtails

piggã

ni:rpiggã

‘water

piggã


pigganakki

ni:rpikka

‘water

pikka


pigganakki

sunbirds

tu:gusi

ṭṭe

‘hanging small

passerine’

hu: kara

ḷi ‘fl

ower

drongo’

kokkakki

‘beak bird’

Only those species with consistent identifi

cations from three or more villages are shown here. The exceptions are the laughing dove, for which two names were

obtained from two villages each, and the sunbirds , one of whose names matches that from our initial list

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