Paniya
പണിയ
Native toIndia
RegionKerala State
EthnicityPaniya people
Native speakers
23,000 (2011 census)[1]
23% of ethnic population
Dravidian
Language codes
ISO 639-3pcg
Glottologpani1256

Paniya is one of the Malayalam languages spoken in India. It is spoken by the Paniya people, a scheduled tribe with a majority of its speakers in the state of Kerala. The language is also known as Pania, Paniyan and Panyah. It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages.[1] According to the 1981 Census, there were 63,827 speakers of Paniya which includes 56,952 in Kerala, 6,393 in Tamil Nadu, 482 in Karnataka.[2] Most of its speakers are found in the Wayanad, Kozhikode, Kannur and Malappuram districts of Kerala, and to the west of the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Paniya at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ "A Hand Book of Population Statistics - Census 1981". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. 1988.
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