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Dravidian
[ druh-vid-ee-uhn ]
noun
- a family of languages, wholly distinct from Indo-European, spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka and including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and, in Pakistan, Brahui.
- a member of the aboriginal population occupying much of southern India and parts of Sri Lanka.
adjective
- Also ¶Ù°ù²¹Â·±¹¾±»å·¾±³¦ []. of or relating to this people or their language.
Dravidian
/ »å°ùəˈ±¹Éª»åɪə²Ô /
noun
- a family of languages spoken in S and central India and Sri Lanka, including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, and Gondi
- a member of one of the aboriginal races of India, pushed south by the Indo-Europeans and now mixed with them
adjective
- denoting, belonging to, or relating to this family of languages or these peoples
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- ±è°ù±ð-¶Ù°ù²¹Â·±¹¾±»å·¾±Â·²¹²Ô adjective
- pre-¶Ù°ù²¹Â·±¹¾±»å·¾±³¦ adjective
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of Dravidian1
Example Sentences
Theories have linked it to early Brahmi scripts, Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages, Sumerian, and even claimed it's just made up of political or religious symbols.
Some linguists, however, argue that the appearance of Sanskrit was predated by Tamil, a Dravidian language that is still used by almost 85 million native speakers in southern India and Sri Lanka.
They numbered some 400,000, spoke a language of the Austroasiatic family—unlike India’s mainstream Indo-European and Dravidian languages—and lay largely outside the Hindu world.
Now known as Hampi, that great city marks the pinnacle of Dravidian architecture, with its soaring temple towers and colonnades.
Kannada, the language that Google’s fact box said was India’s ugliest, is part of a family of Dravidian languages that are native to southern India and go back thousands of years.
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