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Kurichiya

Kurichiya is a Dravidian language spoken in India. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Kurichiya (IPA: [kurit͡ʃjɐ]) 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.

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Words in Kurichiya

MeaningWordRomanization
waterബെള്ളംbeḷḷaṁ

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