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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Dravidian language spoken in India}}<br />
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{{Infobox language<br />
|name = Jenu Kurumba<br />
|nativename = {{lang|xuj|ஜென்னு குரும்பா}}<br />
|states = [[India]]<br />
|region = [[Karnataka]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Kerala]]<br />
|speakers = {{sigfig|101,000|1}}<br />
|date = 2011 census<br />
|ref = e25<br />
|familycolor = Dravidian<br />
|fam2 = Southern<br />
|fam3 = [[Southern Dravidian languages|Southern I]]<br />
|fam4 = Tamil–[[Kannada dialects|Kannada]]<br />
|fam5 = [[Kannada dialects|Badaga–Kannada]]<br />
|fam6 = Kannadoid<br />
|iso3= xuj<br />
|script= [[Tamil script]]<br />
|glotto=jenn1240<br />
|glottoname=Jennu <br />
|glottorefname=Jennu Kurumba<br />
}}<br />
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'''Jenu Kurumba''' ({{ipa|xuj|d͡ʒeːnu kurumbɐ|ipa}}), also known as '''Jen Kurumba''' or '''Jennu Kurumba''', is a [[Southern Dravidian languages|Southern]] [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian language]] of the [[Tamil–Kannada language|Tamil–Kannada]] subgroup spoken by the [[Jenu Kuruba]]/[[Kattunayakan]] tribe.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023|reason="Jenu Kurumba" is not mentioned on the Kuruba page at all.}} It is often considered to constitute a dialect of [[Kannada Language|Kannada]]; however, ''[[Ethnologue]]'' classifies it as a separate language. Jenu Kurumba speakers are situated on the [[Nilgiri Hills]] cross-border area between [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Karnataka]], [[Mysore district|Mysore]] and [[Kodagu district|Kodagu]] districts of [[Karnataka]], and [[Wayanad district|Wayanad]] district of [[Kerala]]. The speakers of the language call it "nama basha" ({{Translation|our language}}).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cepf.net/sites/default/files/56154-ipp-kattunayakan.pdf|title=Indigenous People's Plan: Kattunayakans|work=Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund|access-date=15 March 2022}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Betta Kurumba language]]<br />
*[[Alu Kurumba language]]<br />
*[[Dravidian languages]]<br />
*[[List of languages by number of native speakers in India]]<br />
*[[Languages of South Asia]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
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*{{Citation<br />
|last= Zvelebil<br />
|first= Kamil V.<br />
|authorlink=Kamil Zvelebil<br />
|title= Jēnu Kuṟumba: Brief Report on a "Tribal" Language of the Nilgiri Area<br />
|publisher= Journal of the American Oriental Society<br />
|year= 1988<br />
|url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/603656<br />
}}<br />
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{{Dravidian languages}}<br />
{{Languages of Tamil Nadu}}<br />
{{Languages spoken in Kerala}}<br />
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[[Category:Languages of Kerala]]<br />
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