| Kurichiya | |
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| Native to | India |
| Ethnicity | Kurichiya |
Native speakers | 29,000 (2004)[1] |
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| ISO 639-3 | kfh |
| Glottolog | kuri1256 |
| ELP | Kurichiya |
Kurichiya is a Southern Dravidian language spoken by the Kurichiya, a Scheduled tribeofIndia. 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.[2]
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