Kanikkaran language

Kanikkaran
Native to India
Region Tamil Nadu, Kanyakumari
Ethnicity Kanikkaran
Native speakers
19,000  (2007)[1]
Dravidian
  • Southern

Language codes
ISO 639-3 kev
Glottolog kani1275[2]

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

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kanikkaran at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kanikkaran". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Kanikkaran language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator