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