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| name = Moundadan Chetty<br />
| nativename = <br />
| state = [[India]]<br />
| region = [[The Nilgiris District|The Nilgiris]], [[Tamil Nadu]]<br />
| ethnicity = <br />
| speakers = 5,400<br />
| date = 2020<br />
|ref= e24<br />
| familycolor = Dravidian<br />
| fam2 = [[Southern Dravidian languages|Southern]]<br />
| fam3 = [[Tamil–Kannada languages|Tamil–Kannada]]<br />
| fam4 = [[Kannada–Badaga languages|Kannada–Badaga]]?<br />
| iso3 = cty<br />
| glotto = none<br />
| glottorefname = <br />
| script = speakers use [[Tamil script]] (majority) and [[Malayalam script]]<br />
| notice = <br />
}}<br />
'''Moundadan Chetty''' or '''Chetti''' is an unclassified [[Southern Dravidian languages|Southern Dravidian language]] of [[India]] spoken by Moundadan Chetti community in the Nilgiri district of Tamilnadu and in the Way as 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]]. The people have requested the Tamil Nadu government to recognize them as distinct.<br />
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