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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Kannadoid language of India}}<br />
{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Maundadan Chetti<br />
| nativename = <br />
| state = [[India]]<br />
| region = [[Nilgiris District|Nilgiris]], [[Tamil Nadu]]<br />
| ethnicity = <br />
| speakers = 5,400<br />
| date = 2020<br />
| ref = e25<br />
| familycolor = Dravidian<br />
| fam2 = Southern<br />
| fam3 = [[South Dravidian languages|Southern I]]<br />
| fam4 = Tamil–[[Kannada dialects|Kannada]]<br />
| fam5 = [[Kannada dialects|Kannada–Badaga]]<br />
| fam6 = Kannadoid<br />
| iso3 = cty<br />
| glotto = maun1243<br />
| glottoname = Maundadan Chetti<br />
| script = speakers use [[Tamil script]] (majority) and [[Malayalam script]]<br />
| notice = <br />
}}<br />
'''Maundadan Chetti''' ({{ipa|cty|mɐu̯ɳɖɐd̪ɐn t͡ʃeʈːi|ipa}}) or '''Chetti''' is a Kannadoid [[Southern Dravidian languages|Southern Dravidian language]] of [[India]] spoken by Maundadan Chetti community in the Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu and in the Wayanad district of Kerala, India. Its highest lexical similarity is with [[Badaga language|Badaga]], which one calculation put at 57%, and it has somewhat lower similarities (47%&ndash;41%) with Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and [[Wayanadan Chetti]].<br />
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