Maundadan Chetti language explained

Maundadan Chetti
State:India
Region:Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu
Speakers:5,400
Date:2020
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Dravidian
Fam2:Southern
Fam3:Southern I
Fam4:Tamil–Kannada
Fam5:Kannada–Badaga
Fam6:Kannadoid
Iso3:cty
Glotto:maun1243
Glottoname:Maundadan Chetti
Script:speakers use Tamil script (majority) and Malayalam script

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. The people have requested the Tamil Nadu government to recognize them as distinct.