Kurukh

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Kurukh is an indigenous Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Oraon tribal communities in eastern and central India.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Kurukh language 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
indigenous language
language
closelyRelatedTo Malto language
family Dravidian languages
surface form: Dravidian
hasCaseSystem rich case marking
hasGenderCategory natural gender distinctions
hasGlottocode kuru1302
hasISO6393Code kru
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
influencedBy Bengali
Hindi
Odia
Sadri
languageFamilyBranch Northern Dravidian languages
nativeName Kurukh self-link
Kurux
Oraon
recognizedBy Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India
region central India
eastern India
spokenBy Kurukh people
Oraon
surface form: Oraon people
spokenIn Assam
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
surface form: Bangladesh

Bihar NERFINISHED
Chhattisgarh NERFINISHED
India
Jharkhand NERFINISHED
Nepal
Odisha NERFINISHED
Tripura NERFINISHED
West Bengal NERFINISHED
status vulnerable language
subfamily North Dravidian languages
surface form: Northern Dravidian
subjectTo language shift to regional Indo-Aryan languages
usedAs oral language of Oraon communities
usedIn education programs for tribal communities
folk songs
oral storytelling traditions
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Devanagari script
Kurukh Banna script
Latin script

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

this entity surface form: Kurukh language
this entity surface form: Kurukh language
Kurukh nativeName Kurukh self-link
Jharkhand regionalLanguage Kurukh