Alternate Names: Chetti, Chetty
Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: 62%–76% with Gowder, 65% with Jennu Kurumba ,, 52% with Kannada ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 5,000 (2004).
Nation of Origin: India
Other Comments: ‘Chetti’, trader, also loosely employed as a caste name (Thurston and Rangachari 1909). 10 groups of Chetti identified in Tamil Nadu.