Ravula language
| Ravula | |
|---|---|
| Yerava, Adiyan | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Kodagu District, Wayanad District |
| Ethnicity | 47,000 (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | 27,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
yea |
| Glottolog |
ravu1237[2] |
Ravula, known locally as Yerava or Adiyan, is a Dravidian language of Karnataka and Kerala. This language spoken by the Ravulas is a dialect of Kannada, and is unintelligible to others. Their language exhibits a number of peculiarities which marks it off from Malayalam as well as from other tribal speeches in the Wynad district.[3] It is spoken by 25,000 Ravulas (locally called Yerava) in Kodagu district of Karnataka and by 1,900 Ravulas (locally called Adiyan) in the adjacent Wynad district of Kerala.[4] The term 'Yerava' is derived from the Kannada word Yeravalu meaning borrow.[5][6]
References
- 1 2 Ravula at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ravula". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ "Tribes in Malabar : A Socio-Economic Profile" (PDF). ShodhGanga.
- ↑ "Ravula Language". Ethnologue - Languages of the world.
- ↑ Marti, Felix (2005). Words and Worlds: World Languages Review. Multilingual Matters. p. 238. ISBN 9781853598272.
- ↑ Sinha, Anil Kishore (2008). Bio-social Issues in Health. Northern Book Centre. p. 506. ISBN 9788172112257.
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