| Attapady Kurumba | |
|---|---|
| അട്ടപ്പാടി കുറുംബ | |
| Native to | India |
Native speakers | (1,400 cited 1991 census)[1] |
| Malayalam script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pkr |
| Glottolog | atta1243 |
Attapady Kurumba (IPA: [ɐʈːɐpːaːɖi kurum(b)ɐ]), also called Pal Kurumba or Palu 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Attapady Kurumba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Further reading
- Shyam, S. K.; Ravindran, P.N.; Syama, C.G. (2017). Descriptive Grammar of Muduga and Kurumba. Calicut: KIRTADS (Kerala Institute for Research Training & Development studies). pp. 107–308 (Kurumba language).
- Kapp, Dieter B. (2019). Pālu-Kuṟumba: Grammatik, Textproben und Wörterbuch. Beiträge zur Kenntnis südasiatischer Sprachen und Literaturen (in Deutsch). Vol. 30. Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 9783447112444. ISSN 0948-2806.