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IRULA AND KASUVA.

　These dialects are both spoken outside the territory included in the Linguistic Survey, and they cannot, therefore, be dealt with in this place. Irula vocabularies have been published by Hodgson, Miscelaneous Essays, Vol. Ii, London, 1880, pp. 105 and ff., and in the Manual of the Administration of the Madras Presidency, Vol. ii, pp. 193 and ff. The affiliation of Kasuva is doubtful.

　At the Census of 1891, Kasuva was spoken by 316 persons in the Nilgiri Hills. In 1901 only 241 speakers were returned. The figures for Irula were as follows:-