Ravula language

Ravula
Yerava, Adiyan
Native to India
Region Kodagu District, Wayanad District
Ethnicity 47,000 (2007)[1]
Native speakers
 26,563 (2011 census)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yea
Glottolog ravu1237[3]

Ravula, known locally as Yerava or Adiyan, is a Dravidian language of Karnataka and Kerala. This language spoken by the Ravulas is unintelligible to others. Their language exhibits a number of peculiarities which marks it off from Malayalam as well as from other tribal speeches in the Wynad district.[4] It is spoken by 25,000 Ravulas (locally called Yerava) in Kodagu district of Karnataka and by 1,900 Ravulas (locally called Adiyan) in the adjacent Wynad district of Kerala.[5] The term 'Yerava' is derived from the Kannada word Yeravalu meaning borrow.[6][7]

References

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  2. ↑ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ravula". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ "Tribes in Malabar : A Socio-Economic Profile" (PDF). ShodhGanga.
  5. ↑ "Ravula Language". Ethnologue - Languages of the world.
  6. ↑ Marti, Felix (2005). Words and Worlds: World Languages Review. Multilingual Matters. p. 238. ISBN 9781853598272.
  7. ↑ Sinha, Anil Kishore (2008). Bio-social Issues in Health. Northern Book Centre. p. 506. ISBN 9788172112257.
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