Malankuravan language

Malankuravan (Mala Koravan, Malakkuravan) is an unclassified Dravidian language of southern India, on the southern border of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It may be a dialect of Malayalam with Tamil influence[1] or a language closely related to Malayalam.[2]

Malankuravan
Native toIndia
RegionKerala, Tamil Nadu
Native speakers
19,000 (2001 census)[1]
Dravidian
Language codes
ISO 639-3mjo
Glottologmala1459[2]

References

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