Irula (other)
Irula may refer to: *Irulas, a scheduled tribe of the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu, India *Irula language, their Dravidian language See also *Urali (other) Urali may refer to: * Urali language, a language of Kerala, India * Urali Kurumba language or Betta Kurumba language, a Dravidian language of India * Urali Gounder, an ethnic group of India * Urali Kanchan, or Urali, a village in Maharashtra, Indi ... * ''Irul'' (film), 2021 Indian film by Naseef Yusuf Izuddin {{disambig ...
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Irulas
Irula, also known as Iruliga'','' are a Dravidian ethnic group inhabiting the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, and parts of Kerala and Karnataka. A scheduled tribe, their population in this region is estimated at around 200,000 people. People of Irula ethnicity are called ''Irular'', and speak Irula, which belongs to the Dravidian languages family. Distribution and Religion The tribe numbers around 200,000 spread across three states: 189,621 in Tamil Nadu, 23,721 in Kerala and 10,259 in Karnataka. Those in Karnataka are named Iruligas. The Irulas are mainly concentrated in northern Tamil Nadu: in a wedge extending from Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts in the west to Ariyalur and Cuddalore districts in the south and Tiruvallur district in the north. Small populations live in Coimbatore and Nilgiris districts and were classified by Thurston as a different population. In Kerala, the Irulas are in Palakkad district, while in Karnataka they are concentrated in Ramanagara a ...
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Irula Language
Irula is a Dravidian language spoken by the Irulas who inhabit the area of the Nilgiri mountains, in the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka, India. It is closely related to Tamil. It is written in the Tamil script. Origins The language was first described and classified by indologist Kamil Zvelebil, who in 1955 showed that the Irula language is an independent Southern Dravidian language that is akin to Tamil, particularly Old Tamil, with some Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...-like features. Before that, it was traditionally denied or put to doubt, and Irula was described as a crude or corrupt mixture of Tamil and Kannada. According to a tentative hypothesis by Kamil Zvelebil, a pre-Dravidian population that forms the bulk of the Irulas a ...
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Urali (other)
Urali may refer to: * Urali language, a language of Kerala, India * Urali Kurumba language or Betta Kurumba language, a Dravidian language of India * Urali Gounder, an ethnic group of India * Urali Kanchan, or Urali, a village in Maharashtra, India * Urali railway station, in Maharashtra, India See also * Uralic (other) * Irula (other) * Uruli ''Uruli'' is a traditional cookware extensively used South Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and more broadly in South India. It is also pronounced as Uruli and commonly made of clay, copper, brass or bronze. Urulis were used in home for cookin ...