Kurichiya language

Kurichiya
Native to	India
Ethnicity	Kurichiya
Native speakers	29,000 (2004)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern (?) Kurichiya
Dialects	Kunnam Wayanad
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)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kurichiya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Southern

Kannada-Badaga	Badaga Holiya Kannada Urali
Kodagu	Kodava Kurumba
Malayalam languages	Aranadan Jeseri Kadar Malapandaram Malaryan Malavedan Malayalam Mullu Kurumba Paliyan Paniya Ravula
Tamil languages	Betta Kurumba Eravallan Irula Kaikadi Kanikkaran Muthuvan Tamil Yerukala
Toda-Kota	Kota Toda
Sholaga

Macro-Tulu

unclassified

South-Central

Central

North

Unclassified

Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant)

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