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Ruth Padel
| Muduga | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
Native speakers | (3,400 cited 1991 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | udg |
| Glottolog | mudu1239 |
Muduga, also called Mudugar, is a Southern Dravidian language of India influenced by Kannada and Tulu. It is mainly spoken by Muduga tribes in the Attappady valley south of the Nilgiris in Palakkad district, Kerala.[2] It is mutually intelligible with Attapady Kurumba.
References
- ^ Muduga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Rajendran, Nanu (1986). Muduga Language. Ennes Publications.
Relevant literature
- Arsenault, Paul; Abraham, Binny (2022). "Centralized vowels in Muduga". Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 9 (1–2): 97–129. doi:10.1515/jsall-2022-2045. S2CID 257233842.