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Ālu Kuṟumba riddles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Dieter B. Kapp
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The Ālu Kuṟumbas are a tribe of shifting cultivators, food-gatherers and (casual) hunters. Numbering about a thousand souls they inhabit the steep slopes and glens of the south-western, southern, south-eastern, and eastern ranges of the Nilgiri Hills of South India. They speak a tribal language of its own which holds a kind of mid-position between the Tamil-Malayalam and the Kannada group of the South Dravidian family of languages.

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , June 1984 , pp. 302 - 323
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1984

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