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Maundadan Chetti language

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Maundadan Chetti
Native toIndia
RegionNilgiris, Tamil Nadu
Native speakers
5,400 (2020)[1]
Dravidian
speakers use Tamil script (majority) and Malayalam script
Language codes
ISO 639-3cty
Glottologmaun1243  Maundadan Chetti

Maundadan Chetti or Chetti is a Kannadoid Southern Dravidian language of India spoken by Maundadan Chetti community in the Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu and in the Wayanad district of Kerala, India. Its highest lexical similarity is with Badaga, which one calculation put at 57%, and it has somewhat lower similarities (47%–41%) with Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Wayanadan Chetti. The people have requested the Tamil Nadu government to recognize them as distinct.

References

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  1. ^ Maundadan Chetti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon