Kurukh
Lands
Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal in India, with communities in Assam, Bangladesh and Nepal
Countries India, Bangladesh, Nepal
Facts 3
Today
Odisha counted 358,112 Kurukh (Oraon) people in 2011; many farm and practice crafts such as carpentry, rope making and weaving date palm leaf mats.
As of 2011 Source: Odisha State Tribal Museum (SCSTRTI, Government of Odisha), Odisha State Tribal Museum: Oraon (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Language
Kurukh has its own alphabet, Tolong Siki, created in 1988, officially recognized by Jharkhand in 2007 and now part of the Unicode Standard.
As of 2007 Source: Unicode Consortium, Chapter 13, South and Central Asia-II (The Unicode Standard, Version 18.0) (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Governance
Twelve to thirty Kurukh villages join in a Parha council, where members of each village council meet under a Parha chief.
Source: Dr. Ramdayal Munda Tribal Welfare Research Institute, Jharkhand, Oraon (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
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