The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon

Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey’s The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon offers a comprehensive grammar, transcribed and glossed texts, and a dictionary of Kurux, an isolated Dravidian tribal language in Eastern India.

Masato Kobayashi, Ph.D. (2000), University of Pennsylvania, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tokyo. He has worked on ancient and modern Indian languages, and is the author of Texts and Grammar of Malto (Vizianagaram, Kotoba Books, 2012).

Bablu Tirkey (1980-2015) was a Lecturer of Kurux at Doranda College, Ranchi. Firmly established in Kurux tradition, he worked on Kurux language and literature, and authored the Kurux novel Khatrka Ropnas gahi Tungul (’Poor Ropna’s Dream’) (Bendora, Manas Prakashan, 2017).