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2 days ago · 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]
- One of the world's primary language families
- Northern, Central, South-Central, South
1 day ago · May 23, 2024. The Elamo-Dravidian linguistic hypothesis is a proposition in the field of historical linguistics suggesting a genealogical relationship between the Elamite language, once spoken in ancient Elam (modern-day southwestern Iran), and the Dravidian languages, primarily spoken in southern India and parts of eastern and central India.
5 days ago · Tamil, people originally of southern India who speak Tamil, one of the principal languages of the Dravidian family. Numbering about 64 million in the early 21st century (including about 3 million speakers in northern and eastern Sri Lanka ), Tamil speakers make up the majority of the population of Tamil Nadu state and also inhabit parts of ...
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4 days ago · Semitic languages, languages that form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. Members of the Semitic group are spread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia and have played preeminent roles in the linguistic and cultural landscape of the Middle East for more than 4,000 years.
It's also about the more generic question of what defines the language. The definition includes lexicon. Lexicon with its own set of frequencies and semantics. Building a sentence only using cognates doesn't take us beyond one subgroup in Dravidian imo.
4 days ago · The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...
1 day ago · The Uralic languages (/ j ʊəˈr æ l ɪ k / yoor-AL-ik; by some called Uralian languages / j ʊəˈr eɪ l i ə n / yoor-AY-lee-ən) form a language family of 42 languages spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (which alone accounts for approximately 60% of speakers ...
