Kurichiya language
Kurichiya | |
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Native to | India |
Ethnicity | Kurichiya |
Native speakers | 29,000 (2004)[1] |
Dravidian
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Dialects |
Kunnam
Wayanad
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
kfh |
Glottolog |
kuri1256 [2] |
Kurichiya is an unclassified Southern Dravidian language spoken by the Kurichiya, a Scheduled tribe of India. The two dialects, Kunnam and Wayanad, are no closer to each other than they are to Malayalam.
References
- ↑ Kurichiya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kurichiya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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