Kurichiya

Facts

  • Language: Kurichiya
  • Alternate names: Kurichia, Kurichchia, Kowohans, Kurichiyars, Kuruchans
  • Language code: kfh
  • Language family: Dravidian, Southern (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 29,400
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Malayalam script.

More information:

    A Scheduled Tribe. Consider themselves higher caste than Brahmin. An endangered language (CIIL). Further study is being done at Annamalai University. Hindu, traditional religion, Christian.

    Kurichiya is spoken in India, South Asia.