CTT ISO 639-3
Chetti, Wayanad
A language of India
- ISO 639
- ctt
- Alternate Names
- Chetti, Chetty
- 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.
- 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.
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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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