Wayanad Chetti language

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

Wayanad Chetti, 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. Kannada is the closest major language. Their language is also very similar to Badaga.

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