| Jenu Kurumba | |
| States: | India |
| Region: | Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala |
| Date: | 2011 census |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Dravidian |
| Fam2: | Southern |
| Fam3: | Southern I |
| Fam4: | Tamil–Kannada |
| Fam5: | Badaga–Kannada |
| Fam6: | Kannadoid |
| Iso3: | xuj |
| Script: | Tamil script |
| Glotto: | jenn1240 |
| Glottoname: | Jennu |
| Glottorefname: | Jennu Kurumba |
Jenu Kurumba, also known as Jen Kurumba or Jennu Kurumba, is a Southern Dravidian language of the Tamil–Kannada subgroup spoken by the Jennu Kurumba/Kattunayakan tribe. It is often considered to constitute a dialect of Kannada; however, Ethnologue classifies it as a separate language. Jenu Kurumba speakers are situated on the Nilgiri Hills cross-border area between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Mysore and Kodagu districts of Karnataka, and Wayanad district of Kerala. The speakers of the language call it "nama basha" .[1]