Kurumba: a language and community fighting for visibility
The Kurumbas of Keralam are an Adivasi community with a population of only 2,719 as of 2024, who speak Kurumba, an oral language without a script; with the Census classifying languages with fewer than 10,000 speakers as ‘others’, the future of the language appears bleak
Reported by The Hindu. We will add other newspapers as they cover it.
How the newspaper covers this story
Kurumba: a language and community fighting for visibility
The Kurumbas of Keralam are an Adivasi community with a population of only 2,719 as of 2024, who speak Kurumba, an oral language without a script; with the Census classifying languages with fewer than 10,000 speakers as ‘others’, the future of the language appears bleak
