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Dravidian language of India
The Betta Kurumba language (Beṭṭa Kurumba) is a Dravidian language closely related to Kannada and Tamil,[1][2] and is spoken by 32,000 people in the Nilgiri mountains and in adjoining areas in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.
Beṭṭa (ಬೆಟ್ಟ) means “hills” in Kannada and kurumba (ಕುರುಬ) means “shepherd”.
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- Coelho, Gail (2014). "Placing Indigeneity: Betta Kurumba Narratives of Territory and Clan Structure". Asian Ethnology. 73 (1/2): 39–60. JSTOR 43150503. Accessed 30 July 2023.
- Coelho, Gail (2018). "Complex predicates in Betta Kurumba". Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 5 (1): 23–77. doi:10.1515/jsall-2018-0007.
- Coelho, Gail (2019). "Betta Kurumba". In Steever, Sanford B. (ed.). The Dravidian Languages. Routledge. pp. 162–192. ISBN 9781317525394.
- Zvelebil, Kamil V. (1982). "Bëṭṭu̵ Kuṟumba: First Report on a Tribal Language". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 102 (3): 523–27. doi:10.2307/602307. JSTOR 602307.
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