Kanikkaran language

Kanikkaran
கணிக்காரன்/കണ്ണിക്കാരൻ
Native to India
Region Tamil Nadu, Kanyakumari
Ethnicity Kanikkaran
Native speakers
 19,000 (2007)[1]
Dravidian
Tamil script, Malayalam script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kev
Glottolog kani1275[2]

Kanikkaran is a language spoken by about 19,000 Kanikkars in southern India.[1] They dwell in forests or near to forests in Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam in Kerala. They are also found in Nagercoil and Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu.

References

  1. 1 2 Kanikkaran at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kanikkaran". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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