Kurichiya language

Kurichiya
Native to	India
Ethnicity	Kurichiya
Native speakers	29,000 (2004)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Southern I Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kota Tamil–Toda Tamil–Irula Tamil–Kodava–Urali Tamil–Malayalam Malayalamoid Kurichiya
Early forms	Old Tamil Middle Tamil
Dialects	Kunnam Wayanad
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kfh
Glottolog	kuri1256
ELP	Kurichiya

Kurichiya is a Southern Dravidian language spoken by the Kurichiya, a Scheduled tribe of India. The two dialects, Kunnam and Wayanad, are no closer to each other than they are to Malayalam. The Kurichiya language has 27 identified phonemes, of which 5 are vowels and 22 are consonants. Frequent consonants include /p, t, c, k/ and /m, n/, while /b, v/ occur less frequently.^[2]

References

1. Kurichiya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Syam, S. K.; M., Phil (January 2016). "Kurichiya Tribe of Kerala - A Phonological Study". Language in India. 16 (1).

Sources

• "Did you know Kurichiya is endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2021-02-15.