Kurukh language
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| Kurukh | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | India, Bangladesh | |
| Total speakers: | 2,053,000 (SIL 1997) | |
| Language family: | Dravidian Northern Dravidian Kurukh |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | kru | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Kurukh (also Kurux) belongs to the Dravidian family, and is most closely related to Brahui and Malto (Paharia). It is spoken by the Oraon, a tribal (Adivasi) people of Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, India. It is also the only Dravidian language indigenous to Bangladesh.
Despite the large number of speakers, the language is considered at risk for extinction.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Page 9.
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