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.[2] Kannada is the closest major language.[3] Their language is also very similar to Badaga.[4]
Wayanad Chetti | |
---|---|
Native to | India |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2004)[1] |
Language family | Dravidian
|
Writing system | Tamil script |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ctt |
Glottolog | waya1264 |
Dravidian languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
South |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
South-Central |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
Central |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
North |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
Unclassified | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Proto-languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant) |
This Dravidian languages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |