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Kurukh, n.|ˈkʊrʊx|
Also Khurñkh. Pl. unchanged.
[Kurukh.]
a. A member of a people inhabiting northern areas of the Indian subcontinent, esp. the state of Bihar.
b. The Dravidian language of this people.
Also called Oraon n.
1872E. T. Dalton Descriptive Ethnol. Bengal viii. i. 245 The Khurñkh or Oráons of Chútiá Nágpúr are the people best known in many parts of India as ‘Dhángars’, a word that from its apparent derivation (dang or dhang, a hill) may mean any hillmen. 1900F. Hahn Kuruḵẖ Gramm. Introd. p. i, For ascertaining the position Kuruḵẖ takes up among the members of the Dravidian family, I am greatly indebted to Bishop..Caldwell's ‘Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian languages’. 1906G. A. Grierson Linguistic Survey India IV. 447 Malto does not possess a literature of its own... The Malto language very closely agrees with Kuruḵẖ. 1955T. Burrow Sanskrit Lang. viii. 387 The Dravidian languages Kurukh and Malto are preserved even now in Northern India, and may be regarded as islands surviving from a once extensive Dravidian territory. 1989Encycl. Brit. VII. 44/3 Without a written tradition, Kurukh is documented only since the European colonization of India and in many areas is being displaced by Hindi. |