{{Short description|Malayalam language group}} {{Infobox language family |name = Malayalamoid |region = South India |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<ref name="Glottolog" /> | ancestor = Old Tamil | ancestor2 = Middle Tamil |glotto = mala1541 |glottorefname= Malayalamoid<!-- Actual name of referenced Glottolog page --> }}
The '''Malayalamoid languages''', also known as the '''Malayalam languages''', are the group of Dravidian languages and dialects most closely related to Malayalam.
Unclassified Kumbaran and Kakkala may be Malayalam languages as well.{{Citation needed|date=August 2025}}
==Internal classification== Glottolog classifies the Malayalam languages as follows:<ref name="Glottolog">{{Cite web |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mala1541 |title=Malayalamoid |date=2022-05-24 |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=Glottolog |last=Hammarström |first=Harald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112050906/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mala1541 |archive-date=2022-11-12 |url-status=live |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |last2=Forkel |first2=Robert |last3=Haspelmath |first3=Martin |last4=Bank |first4=Sebastian}}</ref> {{clade |label1=Malayalamoid |1={{clade |1= Allar |2= Eranadan |3= Kadar |label4= Kalanadic |4={{clade |1= Kalanadi |2= Kunduvadi |3= Pathiya }} |5= Kanikkaran |6= Kurichiya |7= Malankuravan |8= Malaryan † |9= Malavedan |10= Malayalam |11= Mullu Kurumba |label12= Ravulic |12={{clade |1= Paniya |2= Ravula }} |13= Thachanadan |14= Ullatan † |15= Vishavan |16= Wayanad Chetti |17= Byari dialect }} }}
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== Further reading == * {{cite journal |title=From Proto-South Dravidian to Malayalam |last=Zvelebil |first=K. |journal=Archív Orientální |volume=38 |date=Jan 1970 |pages=45-67 |url=https://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/knav/view/uuid:d7cb241b-3e47-11e1-bdd3-005056a60003?page=uuid:dcbded28-3e47-11e1-bdd3-005056a60003}}
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