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Dravidian   Listen
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Dravidian  adj.  (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; Telegu, Malayalam, and Kannada are included. These languages are distinct from the Indo-European family of languages.





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"Dravidian" Quotes from Famous Books



... rough proceeding, so rough that for the United Kingdom I ignored the prehistoric types and accepted only the three headings of British, Low Dutch, and Norman-French. Again, as regards India I registered as follows:—Forest tribes (numerous), Dravidian (three principal divisions), Early Arian, Tartar (numerous, including Afghans), Arab, and lastly European, on account of their political importance, notwithstanding the fewness of their numbers. Proceeding in this off-hand way, and after considering the results, the broad ...
— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton


Words linked to "Dravidian" :   Indian, Central Dravidian, Kotar, Gadaba, Tulu, Canarese, Telugu, Kui, Kota, Toda, Kolam, South-Central Dravidian, Tamil, Gond, Kanarese, Badaga, Dravidian language


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