| Kurichiya | |
| States: | India |
| Ethnicity: | Kurichiya |
| 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 |
| Dia1: | Kunnam |
| Dia2: | Wayanad |
| Iso3: | kfh |
| Glotto: | kuri1256 |
| Glottorefname: | Kurichiya |
Kurichiya is a 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.[1]