{{Short description|Dravidian language}} {{Infobox language |name=Eranadan |nativename=ഏറനാടൻ ഭാഷ<br>ا٘يرَناڊَن |states=India |region=Malappuram District |ethnicity=Aranadan |speakers=200 in more accessible areas |date=2001 census |ref=e18 |familycolor=Dravidian | fam2 = Southern | fam3 = Southern I | fam4 = Tamil–Kannada | fam5 = Tamil–Kota | fam6 = Tamil–Toda | fam7 = Tamil–Irula | fam8 = Tamil–Kodava–Urali | fam9 = Tamil–Malayalam | fam10 = Malayalamoid | ancestor = Old Tamil | ancestor2 = Middle Tamil |script= Ponnani script, Malayalam script |iso3 = aaf |glotto=aran1261 |glottorefname=Eranadan }}
'''Eranadan''' <ref name="SinghIndia2002">{{cite book|author1=Kumar Suresh Singh|author2=Anthropological Survey of India|title=People of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRQwAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India|isbn=978-81-85938-99-8|page=195}}</ref> ({{ipa|aaf|eːrɐnaːɖɐn|ipa}}, ISO: {{Transliteration|aaf|ISO|ēṟanāṭan}}; {{langx|ml|ഏറനാടൻ}}; {{langx|ar|ا٘يرَناڊَن}}) is a Dravidian language spoken by several hundred people, predominantly in the region of Eranad, Malappuram district, Kerala, India.<ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=aaf Ethnologue report for language code: aaf]</ref> It is classified under the Malayalamoid languages.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kakkoth|first=Seetha|title=Demographic profile of an autochthonous tribe: the Aranadan of Kerala|journal=Anthropologist|year=2004|volume=6|issue=3|pages=163–167|doi=10.1080/09720073.2004.11890848 |s2cid=76518009 |url=http://www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/T-Anth/Anth-06-0-000-000-2004-Web/Anth-06-3-159-233-2004-Abst-PDF/Anth-06-3-163-167-2004-Kakkoth-S/Anth-06-3-163-167-2004-Kakkoth-S.pdf|accessdate=5 April 2011}}</ref> It is also known as '''Malappuram Bhasha''' or '''Mapla Bhasha'''.
==References== <references/> {{Incubator|code=aaf}} {{Languages spoken in Kerala}} {{Dravidian languages}}
Category:Arabi Malayalam Category:Languages of Kerala
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