Kurukh
Dravidian language of eastern India
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Summary
Kurukh is a language[1]. Kurukh ranks in the top 2% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (811 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Kurukh people[3], Kisan tribe[4]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Jharkhand[5], West Bengal[6], Chhattisgarh[7], Assam[8], Bihar[9], Tripura[10], Odisha[11]
- Country: Bangladesh[12], India[13]
- Instance of: modern language[14]
- Subclass of: Dravidian[15], Kurukh–Malto[16]
- Writing system: Devanagari[17], Tolong Siki[18], Kurukh Banna[19]
- Commons category: Kurukh language[20]
- Topic's main category: Category:Kurukh language[21]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 2,000,000[22]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C153989[23]
- Indigenous to: Dinajpur District[24], Thakurgaon District[25], Rangpur Division[26], Assam[27], Bihar[28], Chhattisgarh[29], Jharkhand[30], Odisha[31], Tripura[32], West Bengal[33]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KRU[34]
- Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[35]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[36], agglutinative language[37]
- Pronunciation variety: Help:IPA[38]
Why It Matters
Kurukh has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] Kurukh is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]