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Title:		Two distinct regions: the Nilgiri massif and the forest foothills
		Landscape
		The Kurumba languages of the Nilgiris in South India
Coverage:		India
Description:		The areas where the Kurumbas live can be conveniently divided into two distinct zones (cf. Bird-David 1994): (i) the Nilgiri hills proper, a hilly plateau rising abruptly from the Coimbatore plains, with a peak, the 'Dodda Betta' at 2636m and a mean elevation of about 2000-2500m, and (ii) the forest areas extending from the foothills of the massif, made of several plateaus with an elevation generally below 1000m: Attapady i(SW) , Waynad (W, up to Coorg in NW and Nilambur valley in SW), Mysore plateau (N). The Alu Kurumbas are the only group living in the hills, mainly on the southern steep slopes of the Nilgiri massif, covered by dense, tropical forest. The other Kurumba groups live in the lower part of this area , mostly included in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (Unesco). Bird-David, Nurit. 1994. The Nilgiri Tribal Systems: A View from below. Modern Asian Studies 28 2: 339-355. Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve : http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/man-and-biosphere-programme/ http://www.unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?code=IND+01&mode=all
		The project documents the language and culture of the Kurumbas of the Nilgiri area in South India. The Kurumbas live in small groups dispersed on the slopes and in the forest areas encircling the Nilgiri hills.The project focuses on five distinct subgroups located in different geographical zones and having different socio-economic occupations: the Jenu Kurubas, near the Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka, the Jenu Kurumbas in the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu and the Alu Kurumbas in the Nilgiri hills (Tamil Nadu) are representative of the current tribal situation, between tradition and modernisation. Two other groups living in Kerala illustrate more divergent cases: the Mullu Kurumbas of the Waynad are the most integrated Iin the mainstream Indian way of life, while, at the opposite, the Cholanaikers of the Nilambur valley try to maintain the most traditional forest based way of life.
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Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0020-FD60-6
		DoBeS II/84 325
Publisher:		Christiane Pilot-Raichoor ; Frank Heidemann
		Max Plank Institue, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Subject:		Undetermined language
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Subject (ISO639):		und
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Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0020-FD60-6
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
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Citation:		n.a. n.d. Christiane Pilot-Raichoor ; Frank Heidemann.
Terms:		iso639_und
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