Attapady Kurumba language

Not to be confused with Kurumba language.

Attapady Kurumba
Native to	India
Native speakers	(1,400 cited 1991 census)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern (?) Attapady Kurumba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`pkr`
Glottolog	`atta1243`^[2]

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.^[1]

References

1 2 Attapady Kurumba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Attapady Kurumba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Dravidian languages

Southern

Tamil-Kannada

Kannada-Badaga	Badaga Holiya Kannada Urali

Kodagu	Kodava Kurumba

Malayalam languages	Aranadan Jeseri Kadar Malapandaram Malaryan Malavedan Malayalam Mullu Kurumba Paliyan Paniya Ravula

Tamil languages	Betta Kurumba Eravallan Irula Kaikadi Kanikkaran Muthuvan Tamil Yerukala

Toda-Kota	Kota Toda

Sholaga

Macro-Tulu

unclassified

South-Central

Central

North

Unclassified

Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant)

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