Muduga, also called Mudugar, is an unclassified
Southern Dravidian language of
India
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influenced by
Kannada
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and
Tulu
Tulu may refer to:
People
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India
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. It is mainly spoken by Muduga tribes in the Attappady valley south of the Nilgiris in Palakkad district, Kerala.
It is
mutually intelligible with
Attapady Kurumba.
References
Dravidian languages
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