Kurukh people

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The Kurukh people are an indigenous Dravidian-speaking ethnic group of central and eastern India, traditionally known as forest-dwelling cultivators with a distinct language and cultural heritage.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kurukh people canonical 5
Gondi people 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian people ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
indigenous people ⓘ
agriculturalPractice rain-fed agriculture ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Oraon ⓘ
Uraon ⓘ
associatedWithRegion Chota Nagpur Plateau ⓘ
clanTerm got ⓘ
country India ⓘ
culturalHeritage folk tales ⓘ
oral traditions ⓘ
ritual songs ⓘ
ethnolinguisticIdentity Kurukh-speaking community ⓘ
ethnonym Kurukh ⓘ
governmentClassification Adivasi ⓘ
linked to: Adivasis
languageFamily Dravidian languages ⓘ
nativeLanguage Kurukh language ⓘ
linked to: Kurukh
recognizedAs Scheduled Tribe in India ⓘ
religion Christianity ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ
Sarnaism ⓘ
scriptUsed Devanagari ⓘ
linked to: Devanagari script

Latin script ⓘ
Tolong Siki ⓘ
significantPopulationIn Assam ⓘ
Bihar ⓘ
Chhattisgarh ⓘ
Jharkhand ⓘ
Madhya Pradesh ⓘ
Odisha ⓘ
linked to: Orissa

West Bengal ⓘ
socialOrganization clan system ⓘ
subfamily Northern Dravidian languages ⓘ
traditionalBelief animism ⓘ
traditionalDance jhumar ⓘ
karma dance ⓘ
traditionalDress dhoti ⓘ
sari ⓘ
traditionalFestival Karma festival ⓘ
Sarhul ⓘ
linked to: Sarhul festival

Sohrai ⓘ
traditionalHabitat forested areas ⓘ
traditionalInstrument mandar drum ⓘ
nagara ⓘ
traditionalMusic folk songs ⓘ
traditionalOccupation cultivation ⓘ
traditionalRegion central India ⓘ
eastern India ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kurukh → spokenBy → Kurukh people ⓘ
North Dravidian languages → spokenBy → Kurukh people ⓘ
Dravidian peoples → majorEthnicGroup → Kurukh people ⓘ
Adilabad Gondi → spokenBy → Gondi people ⓘ
linked to: Kurukh people
Oraon → ethnolinguisticGroup → Kurukh people ⓘ
Kurux → spokenBy → Kurukh people ⓘ