Wayanad Chetti language
Wayanad Chetti, or Chetti, is an unclassified Southern Dravidian language of India spoken by Wayanadan Chetti community in the Wayanad district of Kerala, India. It has 62-76% lexical similarity with Gowder, 65% with Jen Kurumba and 52% with Kannada.[3] Kannada is the closest major language.[4] Their language is also very similar to Badaga.[5]
Wayanad Chetti | |
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Native to | India |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2004)[1] |
Dravidian
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Tamil script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ctt |
Glottolog | waya1264 [2] |
References
- Wayanad Chetti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wayanad Chetti". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "Ethnologue".
- Waugh, Barb (15 March 2006). "Wayanad Chetti" (PDF).
- Hockings, Paul; Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane (1992). A Badaga-English Dictionary, Volume 8 of Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC]. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 454, 514. ISBN 9783110846058.
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