Maundadan Chetti language
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| Maundadan Chetti | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | 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 | maun1243 Maundadan Chetti |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Maundadan Chetti (IPA: [mɐu̯ɳɖɐd̪ɐn t͡ʃeʈːi]) or Chetti is a Kannadoid Southern Dravidian language of India spoken by Maundadan Chetti community in the Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu and in the Wayanad 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.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Maundadan Chetti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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