Tamil languages

Tamil
Geographic distribution:	South India
Linguistic classification:	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Tamil
Glottolog:	`tami1299`^[1]

The Tamil languages are the group of Dravidian languages most closely related to Tamil. In addition to Tamil itself, they are:

Irula, Kaikadi, Betta Kurumba, Yerukala, Eravallan, Kanikkaran, Muthuvan, Sholaga

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tamiloid". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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