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Malayalam languages

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Geographic distribution:
  
South India

Glottolog:
  
mala1541

Linguistic classification:
  
Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Malayalam

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

  • Paniya, Ravula, Aranadan, Kadar, Malapandaram, Malaryan, Malavedan, Mannan, Paliyan, Jeseri, Mullu Kurumba, Judeo-Malayalam

    • Unclassified Malanmkuravan may be a dialect of Malayalam as well.

    References

    Malayalam languages Wikipedia
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