Muduga language

Muduga
Native to	India
Native speakers	(3,400 cited 1991 census)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern (?) Muduga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`udg`
Glottolog	`mudu1239`^[2]

Muduga also called Mudugar is an unclassified Southern Dravidian language of India influenced by Kannada and Tulu. It is mainly spoken by Muduga tribes in the Attappady valley south of the Nilgiris in Palakkad district, Kerala.^[3] It is mutually intelligible with Attapady Kurumba.

References

↑ Muduga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Muduga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Rajendran, Nanu (1986). Muduga Language. Ennes Publications.

Dravidian languages

Southern

Tamil-Kannada

Kannada-Badaga	Badaga Holiya Kannada Urali

Kodagu	Kodava Kurumba

Malayalam languages	Aranadan Jeseri Kadar Malapandaram Malaryan Malavedan Malayalam Mullu Kurumba Paliyan Paniya Ravula

Tamil languages	Betta Kurumba Eravallan Irula Kaikadi Kanikkaran Muthuvan Tamil Yerukala

Toda-Kota	Kota Toda

Sholaga

Macro-Tulu

unclassified

South-Central

Central

North

Unclassified

Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant)

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