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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 913 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KORKUS , an aboriginal tribe of

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India, dwelling on the

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SATPURA

Satpura hills in the Central Provinces . They are of

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INTEREST

interest as being the westernmost representatives of the Munda

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FAMILY

family of speech . They are rapidly becoming hinduized, as may be gathered from the figures of the

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CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census of 1901, which show 140,000 Korkus by

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RACE

race. but only 88,000 speakers of the Kerku

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LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

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