Chenchu language is a Dravidian language which belongs to the Telugu branch of its South-Central family. This language is spoken mostly in

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and

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states in

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by about 28,754 people (1981 census) of the

Chenchu The Chenchus are a Dravidian tribe, a designated Scheduled Tribe in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Odisha. They are an aboriginal tribe whose traditional way of life been based on hunting and gathering. The Chen ...

Aboriginal forests

hunter-gatherer A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local sources, especially edible wild plants but also insects, fungi, ...

tribe. It is also called Chenchukulam, Chenchwar, Chenswar or Choncharu.

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