Malankuravan language

Malankuravan
Native to India
Region Kerala, Tamil Nadu
Native speakers
19,000  (2001 census)[1]
Dravidian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mjo
Glottolog mala1459[2]

Malankuravan (Mala Koravan, Malakkuravan) is a Dravidian language of southern India, on the southern border of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It may be a dialect of Malayalam with Tamil influence[1] or a language closely related to Malayalam.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Malankuravan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Malankuravan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.