Korkun.adj.
/ˈkɔːkuː/ A. n.
a. A member of a Kolarian people of the Central Provinces of India.
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Collery1763
Santal1852
Korkua1863
Korwa1865
a1863 S. Hislop Aboriginal Tribes of Central Provinces (1866) App. p. xi All Kurkus are of one caste. They eat from the hands of Hindus, but not from Gonds or Mahars.
1874 J. F. Watson & J. W. Kaye People of India VII. 404 Korkoos are more migratory than Gonds.
1908 H. H. Risley People of India ii. 100 Totems found among sixteen castes and tribes, including..the primitive Gonds, Korkus, and Orāons.
1950 N. S. Saigal in A. V. Thakkar Tribes India 74 Among Korkus, 3% are Christian converts and 1·5% are Muslim converts.
b. The language of the Korkus.
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Khasi1855
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Mon-Khmer1887
Kol1903
Korku1906
Temiar1933
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austroasiatic > Munda > north Munda languages
Kolarian1866
Mundari1871
Korwa1872
Kol1903
Ho1906
Korku1906
1906 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India IV. 167 There is only one sub-dialect of Kūrkū, the so-called Muwāsī... It does not differ much from ordinary Kūrkū.
1962 J. J. Gumperz in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 468 Similarly in India the North Dravidian tribal languages and Munda languages such as Korku are found deep in the Indo-Aryan territory.
B. adj.
Of or belonging to the Korkus or their language.
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1868 Rep. Ethnol. Comm. Specimens Aborig. Tribes Jubbulpore Exhib. 1866–67 iii. 17 Vocabulary of Korkoo words.
1961 Amer. Speech 36 223 Korku phonology and morphophonemics... (Analysis of Korku with particular emphasis on low tone-cum-aspiration and stress..).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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