Betta Kurumba language

Betta Kurumba
Beṭṭa Kurumba
Native to India
Region Nilgiri mountains (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala)
Native speakers
 32,000 (2003)[1]
Dravidian
Kannada script. Malayalam script. Tamil script.
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xub
Glottolog bett1235[2]

The Betta Kurumba language (Beṭṭa Kurumba) is a Dravidian language related to Tamil, Kannada and Kodava,[3][4] and is spoken by 32,000 people in the Nilgiri mountains and in adjoining areas in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. Beṭṭa (ಬೆಟ್ಟ) means “hills” in Kannada.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Betta Kurumba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Betta Kurumba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ "Betta Kurumba". Ethnologue-languages of the world. SIL International.
  4. ↑ Shapiro, Michael C.; Schiffman, Harold F. (1981). Language and Society in South Asia. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 101. ISBN 9788120826076.

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External links

ELAR Open Access Archive


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