The Eravallan are indigenous community regionally referred as

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, and also king of tribes a designated Scheduled Tribe in the

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. They are an aboriginal tribe whose traditional way of life has been based on

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. Eravallan people believe in

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and speak the

Eravallan language Eravallan is a tribal Dravidian language related to Tamil Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native t ...

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