Jenu Kurumba, also known as Jen Kurumba or Jennu Kurumba, is a Southern Dravidian language of the Tamil–Kannada subgroup spoken by the Jenu Kuruba/Kattunayakan tribe.[citation needed] It is often considered to constitute a dialect of Kannada; however, Ethnologue classifies it as a separate language. Jenu Kurumba speakers are situated on the Nilgiri Hills cross-border area between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Mysore and Kodagu districts of Karnataka, and Wayanad district of Kerala. The speakers of the language call it "nama basha" (transl. our language).[2]
| Jenu Kurumba | |
|---|---|
| ஜென்னு குரும்பா | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala |
Native speakers | 100,000 (2011 census)[1] |
Dravidian
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| Tamil script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xuj |
| Glottolog | jenn1240 Jennu |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Jenu Kurumba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "Indigenous People's Plan: Kattunayakans" (PDF). Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
Sources
edit- Zvelebil, Kamil V. (1988), Jēnu Kuṟumba: Brief Report on a "Tribal" Language of the Nilgiri Area, Journal of the American Oriental Society