单词 | kurukh |
释义 | Kurukhn. 1. A member of a people inhabiting Bangladesh and central and eastern India, esp. the state of Bihar. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian > [noun] > Dravidian peoples > person Tamilian1765 Gond1810 Tamil1859 Maria1861 Muria1861 Kurukh1872 1872 E. 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. 2. The Dravidian language of this people.Also called Oraon n. ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Elamo-Dravidian > [noun] > Dravidian > Tamil-Kodagu > other Tuluva1815 Kolamia1863 Oraon1866 Tulu1873 Kurukh1900 1900 F. 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’. 1906 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India IV. 447 Malto does not possess a literature of its own... The Malto language very closely agrees with Kuruḵẖ. 1955 T. 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. 1989 Encycl. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1872 |
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