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CTT ISO 639-3

Chetti, Wayanad

A language of India

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Chetti, Chetty
5,000 (2004). Ethnic population: 23,000 (2019).
Karnataka state: Bavali; Kerala state: Wayanad district, Appapara, Chekadi, Kattikkulam, Panavalli, Pulpalli, Thirunelli, and Tholpetti villages; Tamil Nadu state: Coimbatore, Nilgiri and Periyar districts.
8a (Moribund).
Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Unclassified
None known. Lexical similarity: 62%–76% with Gowder, 65% with Jennu Kurumba [xuj], 52% with Kannada [kan].
Older adults only. Shifted to Malayalam [mal]. Also use English [eng].
NT: 2018.
OLAC resources in and about Chetti, Wayanad
Tamil script [Taml].
‘Chetti’, trader, also loosely employed as a caste name (Thurston and Rangachari 1909). 10 groups of Chetti identified in Tamil Nadu. Hindu.
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.