Attapady Kurumba, also called Pal Kurumba, is an unclassified
Southern Dravidian language spoken by a
Scheduled tribe
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of
India
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. It shows only approximately 50%
lexical similarity
In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words. ...
with the other South Dravidian languages named
Kurumba, but up to 82% with
Muduga
Muduga, also called Mudugar, is an unclassified Southern Dravidian language of India influenced by Kannada and Tulu. It is mainly spoken by Muduga tribes in the Attappady valley south of the Nilgiris in Palakkad district, Kerala. It is mutually i ...
and 52% with Kannada Kurumba; Attapady Kurumba,
Muduga
Muduga, also called Mudugar, is an unclassified Southern Dravidian language of India influenced by Kannada and Tulu. It is mainly spoken by Muduga tribes in the Attappady valley south of the Nilgiris in Palakkad district, Kerala. It is mutually i ...
, and
Irula each use their mother tongue when speaking to each other. Thudukki variety of Attapady Kurumba is reportedly most pure.
References
Dravidian languages
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