Allar | |
States: | India |
Region: | Palakkad, Malappuram districts, Kerala State |
Speakers: | 350 |
Date: | 1994 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Dravidian |
Fam2: | Southern |
Fam3: | Southern I |
Fam4: | Tamil–Kannada |
Fam5: | Tamil–Kota |
Fam6: | Tamil–Toda |
Fam7: | Tamil–Irula |
Fam8: | Tamil–Kodava–Urali |
Fam9: | Tamil–Malayalam |
Fam10: | Malayalamoid |
Ancestor: | Old Tamil |
Ancestor2: | Middle Tamil |
Iso3: | all |
Glotto: | alla1247 |
Glottorefname: | Allar |
Allar (also known as Chatan) is a Dravidian language[1] spoken in Kerala (Malappuram district-Perinthalmanna tahsil, Manjeri tahsil, Mannarmala, Aminikadu, and Tazhecode; Palakkad district-Mannarkkad and Ottappalam tahsils), India. Due to a lack of scholarly study, Allar cannot be classified within Dravidian at this time and may be a dialect of some other Dravidian language.