Wayanad Chetti language

Wayanad Chetti
Native to India
Native speakers
5,000 (2004)[1]
Dravidian
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

  1. Wayanad Chetti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wayanad Chetti". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. "Ethnologue".
  4. Waugh, Barb (15 March 2006). "Wayanad Chetti" (PDF).
  5. 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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