Attapady Kurumba language

Not to be confused with Kurumba language.

Attapady Kurumba, also called Pal Kurumba or Palu Kurumba, is an unclassified Southern Dravidian language spoken by a Scheduled tribe of India. It shows only approximately 50% lexical similarity with the other South Dravidian languages named Kurumba, but up to 82% with Muduga and 52% with Kannada Kurumba; Attapady Kurumba, Muduga, and Irula each use their mother tongue when speaking to each other. Thudukki variety of Attapady Kurumba is reportedly most pure.^[1]

Attapady Kurumba
അട്ടപ്പാടി കുറുംബ
Native to	India
Native speakers	(1,400 cited 1991 census)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Southern I Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kota Tamil–Toda Tamil–Irula Irula–Muduga Muduga–Palu Attapady Kurumba
Writing system	Malayalam script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pkr
Glottolog	atta1243