Aranadan language

Aranadan
Native to	India
Region	Malappuram District
Native speakers	200 in more accessible areas (2001 census)^[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Malayalam Aranadan
Writing system	Malayalam script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`aaf`
Glottolog	`aran1261`^[2]

Aranadan is a Dravidian language spoken by several hundred people, predominantly in the Malappuram District of Kerala state, India.^[3] It is similar to Malayalam and Tamil, and also contains elements of the Kannada language.^[4] It is also known as Aranatan and Eranadans.

References

↑ Aranadan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Aranadan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Ethnologue report for language code: aaf
↑ Kakkoth, Seetha (2004). "Demographic profile of an autochthonous tribe: the Aranadan of Kerala" (PDF). Anthropologist. 6 (3): 163–167. Retrieved 5 April 2011.

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Languages spoken in Kerala
Non-tribal languages	Malayalam Tamil Tulu Kannada Konkani
Tribal languages	Allar Aranadan Mannan Kadar Malapandaram Malaryan Malavedan Paliyan Paniya Ravula Eravallan Irula Kanikkaran Betta Kurumba Muthuvan Yerukula Mannan Kodava Jennu Kurumba Mullu Kurumba Urali Wayanad Chetti Korra Koraga Mudu Koraga Bellari Kudiya Mala Malasar Malasar Thachanadan Ullatan Kalanadi Kumbaran Kunduvadi Attapady Kurumba Muduga Pathiya Toda Kota
Other languages and creoles	Judeo-Malayalam Suriyani Malayalam Cochin Indo-Portuguese Cannanore Indo-Portuguese Tellicherry Indo-Portuguese Quilon Indo-Portuguese Vypin Indo-Portuguese
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Southern

Kannada-Badaga	Badaga Holiya Kannada Urali
Kodagu	Kodava Kurumba
Malayalam languages	Aranadan Jeseri Kadar Malapandaram Malaryan Malavedan Malayalam Mullu Kurumba Paliyan Paniya Ravula
Tamil languages	Betta Kurumba Eravallan Irula Kaikadi Kanikkaran Muthuvan Tamil Yerukala
Toda-Kota	Kota Toda
Sholaga

Macro-Tulu

unclassified

South-Central

Central

North

Unclassified

Italics indicate extinct languages (no surviving native speakers and no spoken descendant)

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