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{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Cholanaikkan<br />
| states = [[India]]<br />
| region = [[Nilambur]] Valley, [[Malappuram District|Malappuram]], [[Kerala]]<br />
| speakers = 281<br />
| date = 1977<br />
| ethnicity = [[Cholanaikkan]]s<br />
| familycolor = Dravidian<br />
| fam2 = Southern<br />
| fam3 = [[South Dravidian languages|Southern I]]<br />
| fam4 = Tamil–[[Kannada dialects|Kannada]]<br />
| fam5 = (unclassified)<br />
}}<br />
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'''Cholanaikkan''' ({{ipa|kn|t͡ʃoːlɐnaːjkːɐn|ipa}}) is Southern a [[Dravidian language]] spoken by the [[Cholanaikkan]] people in the hilly forests of the [[Nilambur]] Valley of [[Malappuram]] district of [[Kerala]].<ref>http://www.languageinindia.com/july2013/ravisankarkeralatriballanguages.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2025}}</ref> They are largely a primitive hill tribe living in rock shelters near rivers in the valley. Some linguists believe the language to be distinct and that considering it an admixture of Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada is erroneous.<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite thesis |title=Sustaining A Lesser Known Language: A Case Study of the Cholanaikkan Language |last=Pradeepkumar |first=Priyanka |publisher=The English and Foreign Languages University |location=Hyderabad |date=2024 |type=PhD |hdl=10603/619820 |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/619820}}<br />
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