Kurux language
| Kurukh | |
|---|---|
| Kurux, Oraon | |
| कुड़ुख़ | |
| Native to | India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan |
| Region | Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal |
| Ethnicity | Kurukh people |
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Native speakers
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1,994,104, 52% of ethnic population (2001 census) |
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Dravidian
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| Dialects |
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| Tolong Siki, Devanagari, Malayalam | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | kru |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously: |
| Glottolog | kuru1301 |
Kurukh /ˈkʊrʊx/ (also Kurux and Oraon or Uranw;Devanagari: कुड़ुख़) is a Dravidian language spoken by nearly two million Oraon and Kisan tribal peoples of Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal, as well as by 65,000 in northern Bangladesh, 28,600 a dialect called Dhangar in Nepal, and about 5,000 in Bhutan. Some Kurukh speakers are in South India. It is most closely related to Brahui and Malto (Paharia). The language grew in the number of speakers from 1971-2001 by almost 41% in India. Despite this growth, the language is marked as being in a "vulnerable" state in UNESCO's list of endangered languages. The Kisan dialect, with 141,000 speakers in 2001, is endangered, with a decline rate of around 12.1%.
Kurukh belongs to the Northern Dravidian group of the Dravidian family of languages, and is closely related to Sauria Paharia and Kumarbhag Paharia, which are often together referred to as Malto.
Kurukh is written in Devanagari, a script also used to write Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and other Indo-Aryan languages. Narayan Oraon, a doctor, invented the Tolong Siki script specifically for Kurukh. Many books and magazines have been published in Tolong Siki script. The Kurukh Literary Society of India has been instrumental in spreading the Tolong Siki script for Kurukh literature.
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