Glottolog atta1243 | ISO 639-3 pkr | |
Native speakers (1,400 cited 1991 census) Language family DravidianSouthern(?)Attapady Kurumba |
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.
References
Attapady Kurumba language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA