Kurichiya language

Kurichiya
Native to India
Ethnicity Kurichiya
Native speakers
29,000 (2004)[1]
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

  1. Kurichiya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kurichiya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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