Malavedan language

Malavedan (മലവേടൻ)
Native to India
Region Kerala, Tamil Nadu
Ethnicity 12,600 (2001 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mjr
Glottolog mala1463[2]

'Malavedar is one the tribal people in kerala.Many of living in kottayam,idukki,pathanamthitta,thiruvananthapuram,kollam districts.They are Economicaly,educationaly,socialy far away from the main stream.Malavedar speaks malayalam and their own tribal tongue also.Malavedan' (Malai Vedan) is a Dravidian language of Kerala and Tamil Nadu that is closely related to Malayalam.

References

  1. Malavedan language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Malavedan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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