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.