Malaryan

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A language of India

ISO 639-3
mjq
Alternate Names
Arayans, Karingal, Malai Arayan, Malayarayan, Malayarayar, Male Arayans, Maley Arayan, Vazhiyammar
User Population

No known L1 speakers. Dormant by 2000s. Ethnic population: 35,000 (2001 census).

Location

Kerala state: scattered in Ernakulam, Idukki, Kottayam, and Thrissur districts.

Language Status

9 (Dormant).

Classification
Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Tamil-Malayalam, Malayalam
Language Use

Shifted to Malayalam [mal], in Kerala state.

Language Development

Grammar.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Malaryan
Writing

Unwritten [Qaax].

Other Comments

A Scheduled Tribe. Speak a variety of Malayalam [mal] as L1. Malayarayar and Mala Arayan are listed as 2 different communities in the census but are the same group. Though the Kanikkar of Trivandrum District also sometimes call themselves Malayarayar, they are entirely different (Menon 1996:198). Hindu, Christian.