Kadar
A language of India
| Population | 1,960 (2004), decreasing. |
| Region | Kerala, Thrissur District, Palakkad District, Chittoor Taluk; Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore District. |
| Alternate names | Kada |
| Dialects | Phonology related to Tamil [tam] and vocabulary related to Malayalam [mal] (Menon 1996). Lexical similarity: 56%–62% with Tamil, 62%–65% with Malayalam, 67% with Mala Malasar [ima], 61%–63 % with Kanikkaran [kev]; 62% with Malamuthan. |
| Classification | Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Tamil-Malayalam, Malayalam |
| Language use | Some language shift to Malayalam [mal] observed in Kerala. Home, village, religious services. Some use Malayalam or Tamil. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 51% in Kerala, 56% in Tamil Nadu. |
| Comments | A Scheduled Tribe. 3 groups named Kadar in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The Kadar who speak the Kadar language live primarily Palakkad and Thrissur hills, and Coimbatore. A second group lives in Wayanad District and speak Malayalam [mal]. A third Kadar (Kadir) group is in Tamil Nadu, Triuchirapalli and Tanjavur districts. They have nothing in common with Western Ghats Kadar. Seen as less developed than other tribes of Chittoor. Hunter-gatherers traditionally, now some settled cultivators, agricultural laborers. Hindu mixed with traditional religion. |
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