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Mala Malasar language

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Language

Not to be confused with Malasar language.

Mala Malasar
Native to	India
Native speakers	1,000 (2004)[1]
Language family	Dravidian Southern Southern I Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kota Tamil–Toda Tamil–Irula Tamil–Kodava–Urali Tamil–Malayalam Tamiloid Mala Malasar
Early forms	Old Tamil Middle Tamil
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ima
Glottolog	mala1457

Mala Malasar (IPA: [mɐlɐ mɐlɐsɐr]) is a Southern Dravidian language spoken by a scheduled tribe of India.^[2] It is close to Irula and classified as a Tamiloid language, sometimes as a dialect of Tamil.^[3]

References

1. ↑ Mala Malasar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. ↑ Bijumon Varghese (2015) [2004]. "The Tribes of Palakkad, Kerala: A Sociolinguistic Profile (SIL)" (PDF). p. 10.
3. ↑ Bijumon Varghese (2015) [2004]. "The Tribes of Palakkad, Kerala: A Sociolinguistic Profile (SIL)" (PDF). pp. 2, 10.

• Bijumon Varghese (2015) [2004]. "The Tribes of Palakkad, Kerala: A Sociolinguistic Profile (SIL)" (PDF).

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