It is isolated in the midst of the Gondi people, who are Dravidian, while its closest relatives are in eastern India.

Korkus are also closely associated with the Nihali people, many of whom have traditionally lived in special quarters of Korku villages.

[6] However, Korku is classified as “vulnerable” by UNESCO, the least concerning of the levels of language endangerment nonetheless.

A few Korku-speaking groups have had relative success in increasing the viability of their dialect, specifically the Potharia Korku from the Vindhya Mountains.

Among the Western varieties, the one spoken in Lahi is notable for its loss of the dual number.

[10] Korku has a large consonant phoneme inventory,[10] in which stops occur in several places of articulation.

Korku, as all Munda languages, shows a strict Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order.

[11] Adjectives are expressed verbally - as intransitive verbs - with the exception of a few cases in which a separate word occurs before the noun they are modifying.

Korku distinguishes three grammatical numbers: singular, dual (two of X), and plural (three or more of X) for nouns in the animate class.

Another example, ᶑijShedadù-tenDadu-ABLsita-khèʔdog-ACCtol-kh-èn-ejtie-INT-PST.TR-3SG.OBJ.ANIMᶑij dadù-ten sita-khèʔ tol-kh-èn-ejShe Dadu-ABL dog-ACC tie-INT-PST.TR-3SG.OBJ.ANIM'She had Dadu tie the dog'Korku has evidence of subject marking in the past, but in modern day subject indexation has been fossilized and restricted to third persons of locative copulas and nominal predicates in the locative case.