Moundadan Chetty language
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.
| Moundadan Chetty | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu |
Native speakers | 5,400 (2020)[1] |
Dravidian
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| speakers use Tamil script (majority) and Malayalam script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cty |
| Glottolog | None |
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Moundadan Chetty at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)