Maundadan Chetti language

Maundadan Chetti or Chetti is a Kannadoid Southern Dravidian language of India spoken by Maundadan Chetti community in the Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu and in the Wayanad district of Kerala, India. Its highest lexical similarity is with Badaga, which one calculation put at 57%, and it has somewhat lower similarities (47%–41%) with Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Wayanadan Chetti.

Maundadan Chetti
Native to	India
Region	Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu
Native speakers	5,400 (2020)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Southern I Tamil–Kannada Kannada–Badaga Kannadoid Maundadan Chetti
Writing system	speakers use Tamil script (majority) and Malayalam script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cty
Glottolog	maun1243  Maundadan Chetti