Jenu Kurumba language

Jenu Kurumba, also known as Jen Kurumba or Jennu Kurumba, is a Southern Dravidian language of the Tamil–Kannada subgroup spoken by the Jenu Kuruba/Kattunayakan tribe.^{[citation needed]} 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" (transl. our language).^[2]

Jenu Kurumba
ஜென்னு குரும்பா
Native to	India
Region	Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala
Native speakers	100,000 (2011 census)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Southern I Tamil–Kannada Badaga–Kannada Kannadoid Jenu Kurumba
Writing system	Tamil script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xuj
Glottolog	jenn1240  Jennu

See also

• Betta Kurumba language
• Alu Kurumba language
• Dravidian languages
• List of languages by number of native speakers in India
• Languages of South Asia