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viii Contents 3.3 TamilandMalaya¯.lamscripts 82 3.4 Writinginnon-literarylanguages 87 4 Phonology: historical and comparative 4.1 ThephonemesofProto-Dravidian 90
The Dravidian languages with the most speakers are (in descending order of number of speakers) Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, all of which have long literary traditions. Smaller literary languages are Tulu and Kodava. [4]
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May 13, 2024 · The Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 215 million people in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The Dravidian languages are divided into South, South-Central, Central, and North groups; these groups are further organized into 24 subgroups. The four major literary languages— Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada —are recognized by the ...
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twenty-six (or more) Dravidian languages number over 200,000,000 and are located primarily in South Asia. A sketch of the most salient typological features of the Dravidian languages is followed by a brief discussion of past and present Dravidian studies, of contacts with Indo-Aryan languages, and of possible affinity with other language families.
1.2 Dravidians:prehistoryandculture 2 1.3 TheDravidianlanguagesasafamily 16 ... 3 The writing systems of the major literary languages 3.1 Origins 78
This chapter describes the Dravidian languages, their histories, and their genetic classification. This volume is a state-of-the-art survey of research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. It covers the languages, their histories and classification.
Sep 22, 2009 · The name Dravidian. Robert Caldwell (1856, 3rd edn, repr. 1956: 3–6) was the first to use ‘Dravidian’ as a generic name of the major language family, next to Indo-Aryan (a branch of Indo-European), spoken in the Indian subcontinent. The new name was an adaptation of a Sanskrit term draviḍa - (adj drāviḍa -) which was traditionally ...
