Paniya is one of the Malayalamoid languages spoken in India. It is spoken by the Paniya people, a scheduled tribe with a majority of its speakers in the state of Kerala. The language is also known as Pania, Paniyan and Panyah. It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages.[1] According to the 1981 Census, there were 63,827 speakers of Paniya which includes 56,952 in Kerala, 6,393 in Tamil Nadu, 482 in Karnataka.[2] Most of its speakers are found in the Wayanad, Kozhikode, Kannur and Malappuram districts of Kerala, and to the west of the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu.
| Paniya | |
|---|---|
| Pania, Paniyan, Panyah | |
| പണിയ | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Kerala |
| Ethnicity | Paniyas |
Native speakers | 23,000 (2011 census)[1] 23% of ethnic population[citation needed] |
Early forms | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pcg |
| Glottolog | pani1256 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Paniya at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "A Hand Book of Population Statistics - Census 1981". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. 1988.
