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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Muduga<br />
|nativename=<br />
|states=[[India]]<br />
|ethnicity=<br />
|speakers={{sigfig|3370|2}}<br />
|date=1991 census<br />
|ref=e18<br />
|familycolor=Dravidian<br />
| fam2 = Southern<br />
| fam3 = [[South Dravidian languages|Southern I]]<br />
| fam4 = Tamil–[[Kannada dialects|Kannada]]<br />
| fam5 = Tamil–[[Kota language (India)|Kota]]<br />
| fam6 = Tamil–[[Toda language|Toda]]<br />
| fam7 = Tamil–Irula<br />
| fam8 = Irula–Muduga<br />
| fam9 = Muduga–[[Attapady Kurumba language|Palu]]<br />
|iso3=udg<br />
|glotto=mudu1239<br />
|glottorefname=Muduga<br />
}}<br />
'''Muduga''' ({{ipa|udg|muɖuɡɐ|ipa}}), also called Mudugar, is a [[Southern Dravidian languages|Southern Dravidian language]] of [[India]] influenced by [[Kannada]] and [[Tulu language|Tulu]]. It is mainly spoken by Muduga tribes in the [[Attappadi|Attappady valley]] south of the Nilgiris in [[Palakkad district]], [[Kerala]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L4AOAAAAYAAJ|title=Muduga Language|last=Rajendran|first=Nanu|publisher=Ennes Publications|year=1986}}</ref> It is [[Mutual intelligibility|mutually intelligible]] with [[Attapady Kurumba language|Attapady Kurumba]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Relevant literature==<br />
* {{Cite thesis |title= Description of the language of mudugas |last=Rajendran |first=N. |publisher=[[University of Kerala]] |date=1978 |type=PhD |hdl=10603/101622 |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/101622}}<br />
* {{cite book |title=Descriptive Grammar of Muduga and Kurumba |first1=S. K. |last1=Shyam |first2=P.N. |last2=Ravindran |first3=C.G. |last3=Syama |location=Calicut |publisher=KIRTADS (Kerala Institute for Research Training & Development studies) |date=2017 |pages=25–106 (Muduga language) |url=https://repository.tribal.gov.in/handle/123456789/74679?viewItem=search&cat_handle=123456789/73706}}<br />
* {{cite book |title=Muḍuga: Grammatik, Textproben und Wörterbuch |last=Kapp |first=Dieter B. |location=Wiesbaden |publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |date=2019 |volume=32 |series=Beiträge zur Kenntnis südasiatischer Sprachen und Literaturen |issn=0948-2806 |isbn=9783447113182}}<br />
* {{cite journal |last1=Arsenault |first1=Paul |first2=Binny |last2=Abraham |date=2022 |title=Centralized vowels in Muduga |journal=Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics |volume=9 |issue=1–2 |pages=97–129 |doi=10.1515/jsall-2022-2045|s2cid=257233842 }}<br />
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