Kui

Japanese: Kui
Kui

...South Dravidian includes Tamil (45 million speakers) in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu and northern Sri Lanka, Malayalam (25 million speakers) in Kerala, Kannada (34 million speakers) in Karnataka, Toda (800 speakers) in the Nilgiri mountains, Kota (900 speakers), Kodagu (40,000 speakers) in the Coorg region, and Tulu (940,000 speakers) around Mangalore. Central Dravidian includes Kui (500,000 speakers), Kuvi (200,000 speakers), Korami (50,000 speakers), Gondi (1.5 million speakers) and others from central India. It is also thought to include Telugu (Andhra Pradesh, 49 million speakers), which has the largest number of speakers of the Dravidian languages. Further North Dravidian languages ​​include Kurukh (1.14 million), Marut (90,000), and Brahui (300,000), which is isolated in far-flung Baluchistan.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Kui" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…まず南ドラビダ語には,南インドのタミル・ナードゥ州およびスリランカ北部のタミル語(4500万人),ケーララ州のマラヤーラム語Malayalam(2500万人),カルナータカ州のカンナダ語Kannada(3400万人)のほか,ニルギリ山中のトダ語(800人),コータ語(900人),クールグ地方のコダグ語(4万人),マンガロール周辺で話されるトゥル語Tulu(94万人)などがある。また中部ドラビダ語には,中央インドのクイ語Kui(50万人),クビ語(20万人),コラーミ語(5万人),ゴーンディ語Gondi(150万人)などが含まれるほか,ドラビダ語族中,最大の話者人口をもつテルグ語(アーンドラ・プラデーシュ州,4900万人)も含まれると考えられている。さらに北ドラビダ語として,クルク語Kurukh(114万人),マールト語(9万人),そしてはるかバルーチスターンに孤立しているブラーフーイー語Brahui(30万人)がある。…

※「Kui」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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