Allar (also known as Chatan) is an unclassified

Dravidian language The Dravidian languages (or sometimes Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan. Since the colonial era, there have been small but significant imm ...

V. Zvelebil (1997) "Language list for Dravidian," ''Archiv Orientální'' 65:175-190 spoken in

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(Malappuram district-Perinthalmanna tahsil, Manjeri tahsil, Mannarmala, Aminikadu, and Tazhecode; Palakkad district-Mannarkkad and Ottappalam tahsils),

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. Due to a lack of scholarly study, Allar cannot be classified within Dravidian at this time and may be a dialect of some other Dravidian language.

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Dravidian languages Languages of Kerala Unclassified languages of Asia {{Dr-lang-stub