Malavedan language

Malavedan
Native to	India
Region	Kerala, Tamil Nadu
Ethnicity	12,600 (2001 census)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Malayalam languages Malavedan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mjr`
Glottolog	`mala1463`^[2]

Malavedan (Malai Vedan) is a Dravidian language of Kerala and Tamil Nadu that is closely related to Malayalam.

References

↑ Malavedan language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Malavedan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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