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4 days ago · The Dravidian languages (sometimes called Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia.
- Official Languages of India
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- Proto-Dravidian Language
Proto-Dravidian is the linguistic reconstruction of the...
- Malankuravan
Malankuravan (Mala Koravan, Malakkuravan) is an unclassified...
- Kurumba
Kurumba (also known as Kuruba in Karnataka and Kuruma in...
- Official Languages of India
4 days ago · Telugu language, largest member of the Dravidian language family. Primarily spoken in southeastern India, it is the official language of the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In the early 21st century Telugu had more than 75 million speakers.
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14 hours ago · The hypothesis that the Dravidian languages display similarities with the Uralic language group, suggesting a prolonged period of contact in the past, is popular amongst Dravidian linguists and has been supported by a number of scholars, including Robert Caldwell, Thomas Burrow, Kamil Zvelebil, and Mikhail Andronov.
4 days ago · The Dravidian language family includes major languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, along with several other languages spoken in various regions of India and neighboring countries. These languages have a rich literary tradition and historical depth, with evidence of their existence dating back several millennia.
In summary, there are essentially three different theories that are prevalent in the literature: Scenario #1: Dravidian has been spread throughout the mainland India for tens of thousands of years, regardless of whether Dravidian was among the IVC languages. Scenario 1. Scenario #2: Dravidian was the dominant language of the IVC and it expanded ...
4 days ago · The Tamil have the oldest cultivated Dravidian language, and their rich literary tradition extends back to the early Christian era. The Chera, Chola, Pandya, and Pallava dynasties ruled over the Tamil area before the Vijayanagar empire extended its hegemony in the 14th century, and these earlier dynasties produced many great kingdoms.
2 days ago · Because it has a particular prestige as the first attested written language, proposals for linguistic affinity sometimes have a nationalistic flavour, leading to attempts to link Sumerian with a range of widely disparate groups such as the Austroasiatic languages, Dravidian languages, Uralic languages such as Hungarian and Finnish, and Sino ...
