Wayanad_Chetti_language

Wayanad Chetti language

Wayanad Chetti language

Dravidian language spoken in India

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.[2] Kannada is the closest major language.[3] Their language is also very similar to Badaga.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Wayanad Chetti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    "Ethnologue".
  3. [3]
    Waugh, Barb (15 March 2006). "Wayanad Chetti" (PDF).
  4. [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.


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