Kurichiya is an unclassified
Southern Dravidian language spoken by the
Kurichiya, a
Scheduled tribe of
India. The two dialects, Kunnam and Wayanad, are no closer to each other than they are to Malayalam. The Kurichiya language has 27 identified phonemes, of which 5 are vowels and 22 are consonants. Frequent consonants include /p, t, c, k/ and /m, n/, while /b, v/ occur less frequently.
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Dravidian languages
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