Tamiloid languages

Tamiloid
Tamiloid
Geographic; distribution	South India
Linguistic classification	Dravidian South Dravidian South Dravidian I Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kota Tamil–Toda Tamil–Irula Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Tamiloid; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Tamil Middle Tamil ;
Language codes
Glottolog	tami1299

The Tamiloid languages, also known as the Tamil languages, are the group of Dravidian languages most closely related to Tamil. In addition to Tamil itself, they are Eravallan, Kaikadi, Mala Malasar, Malasar, Malapandaram, Mannan, Muthuvan, Paliyan, Pattapu, Bugandi and Yerukala.

Arwi is not a separate language but a register of Tamil used by Muslims. It is written in the Arabic alphabet and contains many loans from Arabic.

Kakkala may be either a Tamil language or one of the Malayalam languages.

Internal classification

Glottolog classifies the Tamiloid languages as follows:^[1]

Tamiloid

Mala Malasar

Malapandaram

Malasa–Eravallan

	Eravallan

	Malasar

Muthuvan–Mannan

	Mannan

	Muthuvan

Old Tamil

Tamil–Paliyan

	Paliyan

	Tamil

Yerukula–Korava–Kaikadi

	Kaikadi

	Pattapu

	Yerukula

References

^ ^a ^b Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Tamiloid". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-11-12. Retrieved 2022-11-11.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Tamiloid". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-11-12. Retrieved 2022-11-11.

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