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Tribals in Kerala are classified by Scheduled Tribes Development Department, Government of Kerala into three sub-sets (Particularly Vulnerable, Marginalised and Minorities). [ 2 ] According to the 2011 Census of India , the Scheduled Tribe population in Kerala is 484.839 (1.5 % of the total population). [ 2 ]
The history of ancient Kerala is deeply intertwined with ancient Tamilagam, and the Tamil and Malayalam languages are closely related. The dialect of Malayalam spoken today in the taluks of Chittur and Palakkad in Kerala has slight tamil influence due to mixing with tamil migrants living in the region and the tamil spoken by Palakkad iyers has large number of Malayalam loanwords, has been ...
Scheduled Tribes of Kerala (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Kerala" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Paniya primarily inhabit Kerala, and the Wayanad, Kozhikode, Kannur and Malappuram districts. Valliyoorkkavu temple with banyan tree considered sacred by Paniya tribe. Paniyas typically live in villages (padis) consisting of a few huts (pire or chala) with courtyards. Each hut settlement contains 5 to 15 families. [8]
The following list shows the 33 largest Scheduled Tribes according to the Census in India 2011 (76% ≈ 80 of a total of 104 million members) with their population development (population explosion from +25%), their proportions and their gender distribution (number of female relatives per 1000 male) as well as the populated states/territories ...
Kerala was usually known as Malabar in the foreign trade circles in the medieval era. [28] Earlier, the term Malabar had also been used to denote Tulu Nadu and Kanyakumari which lie contiguous to Kerala in the southwestern coast of India, in addition to the modern state of Kerala. [29] [30] The people of Malabar were known as Malabars.
They primarily inhabit the southern Kerala State, especially Silent Valley National Park, and are one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes of the region. The Cholanaikkans speak the Cholanaikkan language, which belongs to the Dravidian family.
The Kadar are a tribal community or indigenous community in India, a designated Scheduled Tribe in the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, [2] and Kerala. [1] They are an aboriginal tribe whose traditional way of life has been based on hunting and gathering. They used to stay in the Annamalai Hills in the Western Ghats, but moved to other ...