10. Toda Language
1, 006 speakers
Toda language also belongs to the family of Dravidian language, and it is spoken by the Toda people, who are located in Nilgiri Hills of southern India. The members of this tribe are Hindu and Christian. Among them there are around 1,000 quite old members who still speak this language, though they don’t have chances to use it often. The most similar to Toda is actually Kota language, and they share around 24% lexical similarity. Some parts of the Bible were also translated into this language, but it is still critically endangered and threatened to become extinct in the following decades.
