Moundadan Chetty language

Moundadan Chetty
Moundadan Chetty
Native to	India
Region	The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu
Native speakers	5,400 (2020)
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Kannada–Badaga? Moundadan Chetty; ; ; ;
Writing system	speakers use Tamil script (majority) and Malayalam script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cty
Glottolog	None

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Moundadan Chetty or Chetti is an unclassified 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, which one calculation put at 57%, and it has somewhat lower similarities (47%–41%) with Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Wayanadan Chetti. The people have requested the Tamil Nadu government to recognize them as distinct.

References[edit]

↑ Moundadan Chetty at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)

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[e24-1] Moundadan Chetty at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)

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