Mullu Kurumba | |
States: | India |
Region: | Kerala, Tamil Nadu |
Date: | 2004 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Dravidian |
Fam2: | Southern |
Fam3: | Southern I |
Fam4: | Tamil–Kannada |
Fam5: | Tamil–Kota |
Fam6: | Tamil–Toda |
Fam7: | Tamil–Irula |
Fam8: | Tamil–Kodava–Urali |
Fam9: | Tamil–Malayalam |
Fam10: | Malayalamoid |
Ancestor: | Old Tamil |
Ancestor2: | Middle Tamil |
Iso3: | kpb |
Glotto: | mull1244 |
Glottorefname: | Mullu Kurumba |
Mullu Kurumba is a Southern Dravidian language closely related to Malayalam.
According to Ethnologue, approximately 25,000 Mullu Kurumba speakers are situated in the Sulthan Bathery and Vythiri tahsils in the Wayanad district of Kerala; and the remaining more than 1,000 are situated in Erumad and Cherangodu villages of the Gudalur Tahsil, Nilgiri District, Tamil Nadu.