Malavedan language

Malavedan (മലവേടൻ)
Native to	India
Region	Kerala, Tamil Nadu
Ethnicity	12,600 (2001 census)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Malayalam languages Malavedan (മലവേടൻ); ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mjr
Glottolog	mala1463[2]

'Malavedar is one the tribal groups in Kerala. Many of them live in Kottayam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam districts. They are economically, socially and in terms of education, far away from the mainstream. Malavedar speaks Malayalam and their own tribal tongue. Malavedan (Malai Vedan) is a Dravidian language of Kerala and Tamil Nadu that is closely related to Malayalam.

References

Malavedan language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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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[1] Malavedan language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Malavedan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.