Attapady Kurumba language

Not to be confused with Kurumba language.
Attapady Kurumba
Native to India
Native speakers
 (1,400 cited 1991 census)[1]
Dravidian

  • Southern

    • (?)
      • Attapady Kurumba
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pkr
Glottolog atta1243[2]

Attapady Kurumba also called Pal 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]

References

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


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