Moundadan Chetty language

Moundadan Chetty
Native to	India
Region	The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Kannada–Badaga? Moundadan Chetty; ; ; ;
Writing system	speakers use Tamil script (majority) and Malayalam script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cty
Glottolog	None

Moundadan Chetty or Chetti is an unclassified Southern Dravidian language of India spoken by Wayanadan Chetti community 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.

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