Thachanadan | |
States: | India |
Speakers: | 3,000 |
Date: | 2004 survey |
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: | thn |
Glotto: | thac1235 |
Glottorefname: | Thachanadan |
Thachanadan is a Southern Dravidian language spoken by a Scheduled tribe of India. Dissimilar to other Dravidian languages, its most likely affinities are to Mullu Kurumba, with which it has 66-72% lexical similarity.