# Eranadan language

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{{Short description|Dravidian language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Eranadan
|nativename=ഏറനാടൻ ഭാഷ<br>ا٘يرَناڊَن
|states=India
|region=[Malappuram District](/source/Malappuram_District)
|ethnicity=[Aranadan](/source/Aranadan_people)
|speakers=200 in more accessible areas
|date=2001 census
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Dravidian
| fam2             = Southern
| fam3             = [Southern I](/source/South_Dravidian_languages)
| fam4             = Tamil–[Kannada](/source/Kannada_dialects)
| fam5             = Tamil–[Kota](/source/Kota_language_(India))
| fam6             = Tamil–[Toda](/source/Toda_language)
| fam7             = Tamil–Irula
| fam8             = Tamil–[Kodava](/source/Kodava_language)–[Urali](/source/Urali_language)
| fam9             = [Tamil](/source/Tamiloid_languages)–[Malayalam](/source/Malayalamoid_languages)
| fam10            = [Malayalamoid](/source/Malayalamoid_languages)
| ancestor         = [Old Tamil](/source/Old_Tamil_language)
| ancestor2        = [Middle Tamil](/source/Middle_Tamil_language)
|script= [Ponnani script](/source/Ponnani_script), [Malayalam script](/source/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](/source/ISO_15919): {{Transliteration|aaf|ISO|ēṟanāṭan}}; {{langx|ml|ഏറനാടൻ}}; {{langx|ar|ا٘يرَناڊَن}}) is a [Dravidian language](/source/Dravidian_language) spoken by several hundred people, predominantly in the region of [Eranad](/source/Eranad), [Malappuram district](/source/Malappuram_district), [Kerala](/source/Kerala), [India](/source/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](/source/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==
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{{Languages spoken in Kerala}}
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Category:Arabi Malayalam
Category:Languages of Kerala

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