Jennu Kurumba, also known as Jen Kurumba, is a Southern Dravidian language of the Tamil–Kannada subgroup spoken by the Jennu Kurumba tribe. It is often considered to constitute a dialect of Kannada; however, Ethnologue classifies it as a separate language. Jennu Kurumba speakers are situated on the Nilgiri Hills cross-border area between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Mysore and Kodagu districts of Karnataka, and Wayanad district of Kerala.
| Jennu Kurumba | |
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| Native to | India |
| Region | Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala |
Native speakers | (35,000 cited 1997)[1] |
Language family | Dravidian
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Writing system | Tamil script |
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| ISO 639-3 | xuj |
| Glottolog | jenn1240 Jennu |
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