Arivame: Kodava Heritage
Kodava Takk, Heritage, Culture
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
New: Creator's Corner — films, music and poetry by Kodava creators, playable in the app. Plus a Kodava word every morning.
Arivāme is a home for the Kodava language, heritage and community — for the people of Kodagu and for the diaspora who grew up far from it.
Kodava Takk is spoken by only a few hundred thousand people and has no script of its own. Very little of it exists online. Arivāme is an attempt to change that.
TRANSLATE KODAVA TAKK
Type an English sentence and get it back in Kodava Takk — in Kannada script, in Latin transliteration, and in ISO 15919. Hear it read aloud. Most translation tools have never heard of this language; this one was built for it.
A DICTIONARY THAT WORKS OFFLINE
Over 12,000 Kodava words with meanings, examples and Kannada script, searchable in English or Kodava. The whole dictionary lives on your phone, so it works on the ghat roads where the signal doesn't.
ASK ABOUT KODAVA HERITAGE
Ask anything about Kodava history, festivals, clans or sacred groves and get an answer drawn from a library of historical sources — with the book and page it came from, so you can check it. What is Puthari? What is an ain mane? Who was Field Marshal Cariappa?
THE LIBRARY
Restored text from historical works on Kodagu, alongside articles written in plain modern language and cited back to their sources. Folk songs from the 1869 collection of Kodava Paat, with the original Kannada verse and a line-by-line romanisation.
CREATOR'S CORNER
Films, music, poetry and art by Kodava creators, playable without leaving the app. Share your own work and let the community find it.
A WORD EVERY DAY
One Kodava word each morning, with its meaning, its Kannada script and how to say it.
LEARN
Short lessons that start from the phrases you would actually use first.
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Arivāme is free. There are no advertisements, no trackers and no analytics. You can use almost all of it without an account; signing in is only needed to post your own work.
Built by and for the Kodava community. If something is wrong — a translation, a word, a fact — tell us, and it gets fixed.
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Information
- Seller
- Resiliens Inc.
- Size
- 27.6 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
Social Media
- Copyright
- © Kodavāme