Betta Kurumba language
Betta Kurumba | |
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Beṭṭa Kurumba (பெட்டா குறும்ப) | |
Native to | India |
Region | Nilgiri mountains (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala) |
Native speakers | 32,000 (2003)[1] |
Dravidian
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Kannada script. Malayalam script. Tamil script. | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
xub |
Glottolog |
bett1235 [2] |
The Betta Kurumba language (Beṭṭa Kurumba) is a Dravidian language related to Tamil, Kannada and Kodava,[3][4] and is 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
- ↑ Betta Kurumba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Betta Kurumba". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "Betta Kurumba". Ethnologue-languages of the world. SIL International.
- ↑ Shapiro, Michael C.; Schiffman, Harold F. (1981). Language and Society in South Asia. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 101. ISBN 9788120826076.
References
- Coelho, Gail Maria (2003): A Grammar of Betta Kurumba (PDF).
External links
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