Korku
(ˈkɔːkuː)
Also Korkoo, Kurku.
a. Name of a Kolarian people of the Central Provinces of India; also, a member of this people. b. Their language. Also attrib. or as adj.
| a 1863 S. Hislop Papers Aborig. Tribes Cent. Provinces (1866) App. p. xi, All Kurkus are of one caste. They eat from the hands of Hindus, but not from Gonds or Mahars. 1868 Rep. Ethnol. Comm. Specimens Aborig. Tribes Jubbulpore Exhib. 1866–67 iii. 17 Vocabulary of Korkoo words. 1874 Watson & Kaye People of India VII. 404 Korkoos are more migratory than Gonds. 1906 G. A. Grierson Ling. Survey India IV. 167 There is only one sub-dialect of Kūrkū, the so-called Muwāsī... It does not differ much from ordinary Kūrkū. 1908 H. H. Risley People of India ii. 100 Totems found among sixteen castes and tribes, including..the primitive Gonds, Korkus, and Orāons. 1950 N. S. Saigal in A. V. Thakkar Tribes India 74 Among Korkus, 3% are Christian converts and 1·5% are Muslim converts. 1961 Amer. Speech XXXVI. 223 Korku phonology and morphophonemics... (Analysis of Korku with particular emphasis on low tone-cum-aspiration and stress..). 1962 J. J. Gumperz in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 468 Similarly in India the North Dravidian tribal languages and Munda languages such as Korku are found deep in the Indo-Aryan territory. |