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.

References

External links

ELAR Open Access Archive


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