Kaikadi | |
States: | India |
Region: | Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh |
Ethnicity: | Kaikadis |
Speakers: | 25,870 |
Date: | 2011 census |
Ref: | [1] |
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: | Tamiloid |
Fam11: | Yerukula–Korava–Kaikadi |
Ancestor: | Old Tamil |
Ancestor2: | Middle Tamil |
Iso3: | kep |
Glotto: | kaik1244 |
Glottorefname: | Kaikadi |
The Kaikadi language is a Dravidian language related to Tamil, spoken by about 23,000 people of the formerly nomad Kaikadi tribe primarily in Maharashtra.