Betta Kurumba language

Betta Kurumba
பெட்டக் குறும்பர் Beṭṭa Kurumba
Native to India
Region Nilgiri mountains (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala)
Native speakers
 32,000 (2003)[1]
Dravidian
Kannada script. Malayalam script. Tamil script.
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xub
Glottolog bett1235[2]

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

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.

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External links

ELAR Open Access Archive


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