Definition of Dravidian languages. Meaning of Dravidian languages. Synonyms of Dravidian languages

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Definition of Dravidian languages

Dravidian languages
Dravidian Dra*vid"i*an, a. [From Skr. Dr[=a]vi[dsdot]a, the name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India.] (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.

Meaning of Dravidian languages from wikipedia

- The Dravidian languages (sometimes called Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka...
- Dravidian is an outer branch (Zvelebil 1990:56) of the Dravidian languages family. There have been slight differences in the way Dravidian languages are...
- Proto-Dravidian is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages native to the Indian subcontinent. It is thought to...
- Elam (present-day southwestern Iran, and southeastern Iraq) to the Dravidian languages of South Asia. The latest version (2015) of the hypothesis entails...
- Dravidian peoples, Dravidian-speakers or Dravidians, are an ethnolinguistic group of ethnic groups native to South Asia who speak Dravidian languages...
- Look up dravidian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dravidian, Dravidan, or Dravida may refer to: Dravidian languages, a family of languages spoken mainly...
- The Northern Dravidian languages are a branch (Zvelebil 1990:56) of the Dravidian languages that includes Bra****, Kurukh and Malto. (There have been slight...
- member of the Dravidian language family, and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. It is one of the few languages that has primary...
- Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages. Languages spoken by the...
- the Dravidian languages, a family of around 26 languages native to the Indian subcontinent. It is also classified as being part of a Tamil language family...