Paniya language
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| Paniya | ||||||
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| ತುಳು ಬಾಸೆ | ||||||
| Spoken in | India | |||||
| Region | Kerala State | |||||
| Native speakers | 94,000 (2003) | |||||
| Language family |
Dravidian
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| ISO 639-3 | pcg | |||||
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Paniya is one of the languages of India. It is a language of the scheduled tribes with a majority of its speakers in the state of Kerala. It is also called as Pania, Paniyan and Panyah. It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages.[1] According to the 1981 Census, there were 63,827 speakers of Paniya which includes 56,952 in Kerala, 6,393 in Tamil Nadu, 482 in Karnataka.[2] Most of its speakers are found in the Wayanad, Kozhikode, Kannur and Malappuram districts of Kerala, and to the west of the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu.
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- http://www.languageinindia.com/may2001/paniya2.html
- http://apha.confex.com/apha/135am/techprogram/paper_163341.htm
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