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|name = Betta Kurumba<br />
|nativename = வேட்டை குறும்பர்<br />
|states = [[India]]<br />
|region = [[Nilgiri mountains]] ([[Tamil Nadu]], [[Karnataka]], [[Kerala]])<br />
|speakers = 32,000<br />
|date=2003<br />
|ref=e18<br />
|familycolor = Dravidian<br />
|fam2 = [[Southern Dravidian languages|Southern]]<br />
|fam3 = [[Tamil–Kannada]]<br />
|fam4 = Tamil–Kodagu<br />
|fam5 = Tamil–Malayalam <br />
|fam6 = [[Tamil languages]]<br />
|script = [[Kannada script]]<br>[[Malayalam script]]<br>[[Tamil script]].<br />
|iso3 = xub<br />
|notice = Indic<br />
|glotto=bett1235<br />
|glottorefname=Betta Kurumba<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Betta Kurumba''' language (''Beṭṭa Kurumba'') is a [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]] language closely related to [[Tamil language|Tamil]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/xub|title=Betta Kurumba|website=Ethnologue-languages of the world|publisher=SIL International}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Language and Society in South Asia|last=Shapiro|first=Michael C.|last2=Schiffman|first2=Harold F.|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers|year=1981|isbn=9788120826076|pages=101}}</ref> and is spoken by 32,000 people in the [[Nilgiri mountains]] and in adjoining areas in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Karnataka]] and [[Kerala]].<br />
''Beṭṭa'' ({{lang|kn|ಬೆಟ್ಟ}}) means “hills” in [[Kannada language|Kannada]] and “Hunter” in [[Tamil language|Tamil]].<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Kuruba]]<br />
*[[Betta Kuruba]]<br />
*[[Alu Kurumba]]<br />
*[[Jennu Kurumba]]<br />
*[[Dravidian languages]]<br />
*[[List of languages by number of native speakers in India]]<br />
*[[Languages of South Asia]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*Coelho, Gail Maria (2003): [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213041/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2003/coelhogm036/coelhogm036.pdf A Grammar of Betta Kurumba] (PDF).<br />
*Coelho, Gail Maria (2018): Annotated Texts in Betta Kurumba. Brill. {{ISBN|978-9004378223}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
[http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0002 ELAR Open Access Archive]<br />
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{{Dravidian languages}}<br />
{{Languages of Tamil Nadu}}<br />
{{Languages spoken in Kerala}}<br />
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[[Category:Tamil languages]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Kerala]]<br />
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