The two authors were jointly responsible for the first version of this Badaga Dictionary (Berlin 1992). It is now extensively revised and ex­panded to two volumes, and – unique for a Dravidian dictionary – it includes some 2000 local place-names. The vocabulary documented here was partly collected by the two authors during long-term fieldwork, but otherwise came from records of Badaga folk literature. Although there are several dialects of the language, these have not yet been sys­tematically studied; but dialectal variations are nonetheless recorded wherever they are known.