Attapady Kurumba, also called Pal Kurumba or Palu Kurumba, is an unclassified Southern Dravidian language spoken by a Scheduled tribe of India. It shows only approximately 50% lexical similarity with the other South Dravidian languages named Kurumba, but up to 82% with Muduga and 52% with Kannada Kurumba; Attapady Kurumba, Muduga, and Irula each use their mother tongue when speaking to each other. Thudukki variety of Attapady Kurumba is reportedly most pure.[1]
Attapady Kurumba | |
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അട്ടപ്പാടി കുറുംബ | |
Native to | India |
Native speakers | (1,400 cited 1991 census)[1] |
Malayalam script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pkr |
Glottolog | atta1243 |
References
edit- ^ a b Attapady Kurumba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)