Malavedan language

'Malavedar is one the tribal groups in Kerala. Many of them live in Kottayam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam districts. They are economically, socially and in terms of education, far away from the mainstream. Malavedar speaks Malayalam and their own tribal tongue. Malavedan (Malai Vedan) is a Dravidian language of Kerala and Tamil Nadu that is closely related to Malayalam.

Malavedan (മലവേടൻ)
Native toIndia
RegionKerala, Tamil Nadu
Ethnicity12,600 (2001 census)[1]
Dravidian
Language codes
ISO 639-3mjr
Glottologmala1463[2]

References

  1. Malavedan language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Malavedan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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