Wayanad Chetti language
Dravidian language spoken in India
| Wayanad Chetti | |
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| Native to | India |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2004)[1] |
Language family | Dravidian
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Writing system | Tamil script |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ctt |
| Glottolog | waya1264 |
Wayanad Chetti, or Chetti, is a 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.[2] Kannada is the closest major language.[3] Their language is also very similar to Badaga.[4]
References
- ^ Wayanad Chetti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Ethnologue".
- ^ Waugh, Barb (15 March 2006). "Wayanad Chetti" (PDF).
- ^ Hockings, Paul; Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane (1992). A Badaga-English Dictionary, Volume 8 of Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC]. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 454, 514. ISBN 9783110846058.
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