Wayanad Chetti language
| Wayanad Chetti | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2004)[1] |
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Dravidian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ctt |
| Glottolog |
waya1264[2] |
Wayanad Chetti, or Chetti, is an unclassified 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.[3] Kannada is the closest major language.[4] Their dialect is also very similar to Badaga, a Kannada dialect.[5]
References
- ↑ Wayanad Chetti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wayanad Chetti". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ "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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