Attapady Kurumba language

Attapady Kurumba, 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.

Attapady Kurumba
Native toIndia
Native speakers
(1,400 cited 1991 census)
Dravidian
  • Southern
    • Tamil-Kannada
      • Tamil-Irula
        • Irula-Muduga
          • Attapady Kurumba
Writing system
Malayalam script
Language codes
ISO 639-3pkr
Glottologatta1243
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