Social:Vishavan language

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Short description: Unclassified Dravidian language of India
Vishavan
Native toIndia
RegionKerala
Native speakers
(150 cited 1994)[1]
Dravidian
  • (unclassified)
    • Vishavan
Language codes
ISO 639-3vis
Glottologvish1243[2]

Vishavan is an unclassified Dravidian language spoken by a tribal people of central Kerala in India.

VIshavan is a tribal community of Kerala, they are settled in Idamalyar region of Ernakulam District and Vazhachal region of Thrissur District. As per the government records they are endangered but they are still living these area. A study titled Tribes of Idamalyar by Dr.Midhun K S proves their cultural and linguistic ethnicity. This book also discusses how vishavans are unlisted in government records.

References

  1. Vishavan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Vishavan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/vish1243. 

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