Betta Kurumba language

The Betta Kurumba language (Beṭṭa Kurumba; Tamil: பெட்டக் குறும்பர், Peṭṭak Kuṟumpar ^?) is a Dravidian language related to Tamil, spoken by 32,000 people in the Nilgiri mountains and in adjoining areas in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. Beṭṭa (ಬೆಟ್ಟ) means “hills” in Kannada.

See also

• Kuruba
• Betta Kuruba
• List of languages by number of native speakers in India
• Languages of South Asia

Notes

1. ↑ Betta Kurumba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Betta Kurumba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 

References

• Coelho, Gail Maria (2003): A Grammar of Betta Kurumba (PDF).

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