Native to India ISO 639-3 ctt | Native speakers 5,000 (2004) Glottolog waya1264 | |
Language family Dravidian
Southern
Tamil–Kannada
(?)
Wayanad Chetti | ||
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. Kannada is the closest major language. Their language is also very similar to Badaga.
References
Wayanad Chetti language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA