Wayanad Chetti language

Wayanad Chetti
Wayanad Chetti
വയനാട് ചെറ്റി
Native to	India
Native speakers	5,000 (2004)
Language family	Dravidian Southern Southern I Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kota Tamil–Toda Tamil–Irula Tamil–Kodava–Urali Tamil–Malayalam Malayalamoid Wayanad Chetti; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Tamil Middle Tamil ;
Writing system	Tamil script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ctt
Glottolog	waya1264

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Wayanad Chetti (IPA: [ʋɐjɐnaːɖə̆ t͡ʃeʈːi]), or Chetti, is a 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]

References

^ Wayanad Chetti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "Ethnologue".
^ Waugh, Barb (15 March 2006). "Wayanad Chetti" (PDF).
^ 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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[e18-1] Wayanad Chetti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] "Ethnologue".

[3] Waugh, Barb (15 March 2006). "Wayanad Chetti" (PDF).

[4] 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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