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Attapady Kurumba language

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Native to
  
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


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