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The Dravidian languages are a language family spoken by the Dravidian peoples. The languages are mainly spoken in South India, western Bangladesh, northern Sri Lanka and southern Pakistan. There are about 26 languages in this family. A total of about 215 million people speak the Dravidian languages.
The Dravidian languages are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, south-west Pakistan and some regions of Nepal. Dravidian is first attested in the 2nd century BCE, as inscriptions in Tamil-Brahmi script on cave walls in the Madurai and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu.
Proto-Dravidian is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages native to the Indian subcontinent. It is thought to have differentiated into Proto-North Dravidian, Proto-Central Dravidian, and Proto-South Dravidian, although the date of diversification is still debated.
Dravidian languages - Phonology, Grammar, Scripts | Britannica. Contents. Home Geography & Travel Languages. Phonological features of Dravidian languages. The Dravidian languages belong to a single family—including the distant relative Brahui.
Sanford Steever. LAST REVIEWED: 24 April 2023. LAST MODIFIED: 24 April 2023. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199772810-0188. Introduction. By number of speakers, the Dravidian language family is the fourth or fifth largest in the world.
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Dravidian languages . Dravidian languages, Family of 24 languages indigenous to and spoken principally in South Asia by more than 214 million people. Four of the Dravidian languages are among the major literary languages of southern India—Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.
R. AmritavalliR. AmritavalliSchool of Language Sciences, English and Foreign Languages University. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.528. Published online: 22 November 2019. Summary. The Dravidian languages are rich in nominal and verbal morphology. Three nominal gender systems are extant.
