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The Elamo-Dravidian language family is a hypothesised language family that links the Elamite language of ancient Elam (present-day southwestern Iran, and southeastern Iraq) to the Dravidian languages of South Asia. The latest version (2015) of the hypothesis entails a reclassification of Brahui as being more closely related to Elamite than to ...
Telugu is one of the six languages designated as a classical language by the Government of India. It is the 14th most spoken native language in the world. [10] Modern standard-Telugu is based on the dialects of erstwhile Krishna, Guntur, East, and West Godavari districts of Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema.
Etymology. Sinhala ( Siṃhala) is a Sanskrit term; the corresponding Middle Indo-Aryan ( Eḷu) word is Sīhala . The name is a derivative of siṃha, the Sanskrit word for 'lion'. [12] The name is sometimes glossed as 'abode of lions', and attributed to a supposed former abundance of lions on the island.
Dravidian languages, a family of languages spoken mainly in South India and northeastern Sri Lanka. Proto-Dravidian language, a model of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages. Dravidian University, a university situated in Andhra Pradesh. South Indian culture, modern Dravidian culture.
Gondi ( Gōṇḍī ), natively known as Koitur ( Kōī, Kōītōr ), is a South-Central Dravidian language, spoken by about three million Gondi people, [2] chiefly in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and by small minorities in neighbouring states. Although it is the language of the Gond ...
Caldwell coined the term "Dravidian" from the Sanskrit drāvida, related to the word 'Tamil' or 'Tamilan', which is seen in such forms as into 'Dramila', 'Drami˜a', 'Dramida' and 'Dravida' which was used in a 7th-century text to refer to the languages of the southern India. The Dravidian Etymological Dictionary was published by T. Burrow and M ...
The name Austroasiaticwas coined by Wilhelm Schmidt(German: austroasiatisch) based on auster, the Latinword for "South" (but idiosyncratically used by Schmidt to refer to the southeast), and "Asia".[6] Despite the literal meaning of its name, only three Austroasiatic branches are actually spoken in South Asia: Khasic, Munda, and Nicobarese.
