{{Short description|Southern Dravidian language of India}} {{Infobox language |name=Muduga |nativename= |states=India |ethnicity= |speakers={{sigfig|3370|2}} |date=1991 census |ref=e18 |familycolor=Dravidian | fam2 = Southern | fam3 = Southern I | fam4 = Tamil–Kannada | fam5 = Tamil–Kota | fam6 = Tamil–Toda | fam7 = Tamil–Irula | fam8 = Irula–Muduga | fam9 = Muduga–Palu |iso3=udg |glotto=mudu1239 |glottorefname=Muduga }} '''Muduga''' ({{ipa|udg|muɖuɡɐ|ipa}}), also called '''Mudugar''', is a Southern Dravidian language of India influenced by Kannada and Tulu. It is mainly spoken by Muduga tribes in the Attappady valley south of the Nilgiris in Palakkad district, Kerala.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L4AOAAAAYAAJ|title=Muduga Language|last=Rajendran|first=Nanu|publisher=Ennes Publications|year=1986}}</ref> It is mutually intelligible with Attapady Kurumba.
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==Relevant literature== * {{Cite thesis |title= Description of the language of mudugas |last=Rajendran |first=N. |publisher=University of Kerala |date=1978 |type=PhD |hdl=10603/101622 |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/101622}} * {{cite book |title=Descriptive Grammar of Muduga and Kurumba |first1=S. K. |last1=Shyam |first2=P.N. |last2=Ravindran |first3=C.G. |last3=Syama |location=Calicut |publisher=KIRTADS (Kerala Institute for Research Training & Development studies) |date=2017 |pages=25–106 (Muduga language) |url=https://repository.tribal.gov.in/handle/123456789/74679?viewItem=search&cat_handle=123456789/73706}} * {{cite book |title=Muḍuga: Grammatik, Textproben und Wörterbuch |last=Kapp |first=Dieter B. |location=Wiesbaden |publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |date=2019 |volume=32 |series=Beiträge zur Kenntnis südasiatischer Sprachen und Literaturen |issn=0948-2806 |isbn=9783447113182}} * {{cite journal |last1=Arsenault |first1=Paul |first2=Binny |last2=Abraham |date=2022 |title=Centralized vowels in Muduga |journal=Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics |volume=9 |issue=1–2 |pages=97–129 |doi=10.1515/jsall-2022-2045|s2cid=257233842 }}
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