Wayanad Chetti, or Chetti, is an unclassified
Southern Dravidian language of
India
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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
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...
is the closest major language. Their language is also very similar to
Badaga.
References
Dravidian languages
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