Malasar

Malasar
Native to India
Native speakers
 7,800 (2001 census)[1]
Dravidian

  • Southern

    • (?)
      • Malasar
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ymr
Glottolog mala1458[2]

Malasar (Tamil : மலைசர்) are a designated Scheduled Tribe in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.[3] The Malasar are one of the earliest known inhabitants of the Western Ghats, in Anaimalai Hills. Malasar is an unclassified Southern Dravidian language spoken by a Scheduled tribe of India.

References

  1. ↑ Malasar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Malasar". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ "List of notified Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Census India. pp. 26–27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
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