Wayanad Chetti language

Wayanad Chetti
Native to	India
Native speakers	5,000 (2004)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Kodagu? Wayanad Chetti; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tamil script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ctt
Glottolog	waya1264

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.[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)
"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)

[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.