Ullatan language

Ullatan
Kochu Velan
Native to	India
Ethnicity	16,700 (2001 census)^[1]
Extinct	(date missing)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern (?) Ullatan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`ull`
Glottolog	`ulla1237`^[2]

Ullatan is an apparently extinct and unclassified Southern Dravidian language once spoken by two Scheduled tribes of India. Speakers shifted to Malayalam.

References

1 2 Ullatan at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ullatan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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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