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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 An Indian people 🗣️ A Dravidian language
Kui

Kui

1 9.9
A group of people from southeastern India living mainly in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh
  • noun
: kui
  • The Kui have preserved unique customs distinct from neighboring communities.

Examples

  • Many Kui people still speak their indigenous language at home.

  • The Kui community has a rich cultural heritage.

  • Anthropologists have studied the traditional villages of the Kui in eastern India.

  • Many Kuis participate in traditional festivals.

  • Anthropologists have studied the traditional villages of the Kui in southeastern India.

  • Many Kui people still speak their indigenous language at home.

  • The Kui have preserved unique customs distinct from neighboring communities.

Compounds

Kui language
1 9.9

A language spoken by the Kui people in southeastern India

bowl of lau kui
9.9

A portion of lau kui served hot in a bowl

lau kui
  • Philippine
9.9

A spicy homemade dish from a region that people often eat at family meals

Surface Forms

Kui singular
Kuis plural

Etymology

Kui is the name the people themselves use in their own Dravidian language in eastern India, so the word simply means the Kui people who live mainly in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.