Kurumba | |
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Native to | India |
Region | Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala |
Ethnicity | 88,750 Kurumbar |
Dravidian
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Tamil script, Kannada script, Malayalam script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
kfi |
Glottolog |
kann1253 |
Kurumba (also known as Kuruba in Karnataka and Kuruma in Kerala), is a group of Southern Dravidian languages of the Tamil–Kannada subgroup spoken by the Kurumba tribes. Some of them are from different branches. [1]
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Together they are known as Kannada Kurumba as they are similar to Kannada. [2]
Kannadoid Kurumba languages are spoken at the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border. Irulic and Malayalamoid Kurumba languages are spoken in Wayanad district of Kerala.