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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Wayanad Chetti<br />
| nativename = {{lang|bfq-Mlym|വയനാട് ചെറ്റി}}<br />
|states=[[India]]<br />
|ethnicity=<br />
|speakers=5,000<br />
|date=2004<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 = Tamil–[[Kodava language|Kodava]]–[[Urali language|Urali]]<br />
| fam9 = [[Tamiloid languages|Tamil]]–[[Malayalamoid languages|Malayalam]]<br />
| fam10 = [[Malayalamoid languages|Malayalamoid]]<br />
| ancestor = [[Old Tamil language|Old Tamil]]<br />
| ancestor2 = [[Middle Tamil language|Middle Tamil]]<br />
|iso3=ctt<br />
|script= [[Tamil script]]<br />
|glotto=waya1264<br />
|glottorefname=Wayanad Chetti<br />
}}<br />
'''Wayanad Chetti''' ({{ipa|ctt|ʋɐjɐnaːɖə̆ t͡ʃeʈːi|ipa}}), or '''Chetti''', is a [[Southern Dravidian languages|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/ctt|title=Ethnologue}}</ref> [[Kannada]] is the closest major language.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2006-030_ctt.pdf|title=Wayanad Chetti|last=Waugh|first=Barb|date=15 March 2006}}</ref> Their language is also very similar to [[Badaga language|Badaga]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CqdJAhNEtMQC&q=chetti&pg=PA454|title=A Badaga-English Dictionary, Volume 8 of Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC]|last1=Hockings|first1=Paul|last2=Pilot-Raichoor|first2=Christiane|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|year=1992|isbn=9783110846058|pages=454, 514}}</ref><br />
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