Write five facts about Irula Tribe (snake catcher)
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Irula are a Dravidian ethnic group inhabiting the area of the Nilgiri mountains, in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India.
A scheduled tribe, their population in this region is estimated at 25,000 people.
People of Irula ethnicity are called Irular, and speak Irula, which belongs to the Dravidian family.
Irular means "dark people" in Tamil and Malayalam, from the root word irul, meaning "darkness", in reference to their dark skin complexion
A study by Yelmen et al (2019) found that the Irula were the closest likely proxy for the 'AASI', or Ancient Anscestral South Indian, one of the presumed founder and autochthonous original Indian populations
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