Kanikkaran language

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Kanikkaran
Native to	India
Region	Tamil Nadu, Kanyakumari
Ethnicity	Kanikkaran
Native speakers	19,000 (2007)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Tamil languages Kanikkaran
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kev`

Kanikkaran is a language spoken by about 19,000 Kanikkars in southern India.^[1] They dwell in forests or near to forests in Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam in Kerala, and Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu.

References

Kanikkaran language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

v t e Dravidian languages

Southern	Allar Badaga Bellari Irula Kanikkaran Kannada Kodava Koraga Kota Kurumba Malayalam Paliyan Tamil Toda Tulu

South-Central	Abujmaria Gondi Kui Kuvi Konda Koya Manda Nagarchal Pengo Telugu

Central	Kolami Naiki Duruwa Ollari Kondekor

North	Brahui Kurukh Sauria Paharia Kumarbhag Paharia

Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant)

v t e Languages spoken in Kerala

Non-tribal languages	Malayalam Tamil Tulu Kannada Konkani

Tribal languages	Allar Aranadan Mannan Kadar Malapandaram Malaryan Malavedan Paliyan Paniya Ravula Eravallan Irula Kanikkaran language Betta Kurumba language Muthuvan Yerukula Mannan Kodava Jennu Kurumba Mullu Kurumba Urali Wayanad Chetti Korra Koraga Mudu Koraga Bellari Kudiya Mala Malasar Malasar Thachanadan Ullatan Kalanadi Kumbaran Kunduvadi Attapady Kurumba Muduga Pathiya Toda language Kota language

Other languages and creoles	Judeo-Malayalam Suriyani Malayalam Cochin Indo-Portuguese Cannanore Indo-Portuguese Tellicherry Indo-Portuguese Quilon Indo-Portuguese Vypin Indo-Portuguese

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