Muthuvan language

Muthuvan is a tribal Dravidian language related to Tamil, mainly spoken in the Pooyamkutty-Idamalayar Dam region in Ernakulam district of Kerala by the Muthuvan people.

Muthuvan
முதுவன்
Native to	India
Region	Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh
Ethnicity	Muthuvan
Native speakers	17,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Southern I Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kota Tamil–Toda Tamil–Irula Tamil–Kodava–Urali Tamil–Malayalam Tamiloid Muthuvan–Mannan Muthuvan
Early forms	Old Tamil Middle Tamil
Writing system	Malayalam script, Tamil script[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	muv
Glottolog	muth1236