Chetti, Wayanad

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A language of India

ISO 639-3
ctt
Alternate Names
Chetti, Chetty
User Population

5,000 (2004). Ethnic population: 23,000 (2019).

Location

Karnataka state: Bavali; Kerala state: Wayanad district, Appapara, Chekadi, Kattikkulam, Panavalli, Pulpalli, Thirunelli, and Tholpetti villages; Tamil Nadu state: Coimbatore, Nilgiri and Periyar districts.

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Language Status

8a (Moribund).

Classification
Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Unclassified
Dialects

None known. Lexical similarity: 62%–76% with Gowder, 65% with Jennu Kurumba [xuj], 52% with Kannada [kan].

Language Use

Older adults only. Shifted to Malayalam [mal]. Also use English [eng].

Language Development

NT: 2018.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Chetti, Wayanad
Writing

Tamil script [Taml].

Other Comments

‘Chetti’, trader, also loosely employed as a caste name (Thurston and Rangachari 1909). 10 groups of Chetti identified in Tamil Nadu. Hindu.