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Mar 21, 2018 · The Dravidian language family, consisting of 80 varieties spoken by nearly 220 million people across southern and central India, originated about 4,500 years ago, a study has found. This estimate ...
Dravidian is a family of languages spoken by 220 million people, mainly in southern India and north-east Sri Lanka, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia. The Dravidian languages are first attested in the 2nd century BCE as Tamil-Brahmi script inscribed on the cave walls in the Madurai and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu.
1. The Dravidian Language Family. In 1816, five “dialects of South India”—Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tulu—were argued by a British administrator in Madras (now Chennai) to constitute a language family distinct from the Indo-Aryan language Sanskrit, with which (however) these languages had “intermixed.” 1 (The concept of the language family had been mooted in 1786, just ...
May 13, 2024 · Tamil language, member of the Dravidian language family, spoken primarily in India. It is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is also an official language in Sri Lanka and Singapore and has additional speakers in Malaysia, Mauritius, Fiji, and South Africa.
May 28, 2023 · There are currently over 80 different Dravidian languages spoken by about 200 million people around the world. A map of India and parts of South Asia showing the distribution of Dravidian languages.
Apr 13, 2018 · This chapter discusses the lexicons and dictionaries of the Dravidian languages, a family of 25 languages spoken by about 250 million people, primarily in south and central India. The central focus is on dictionary making for the various modern languages....
Kurukh (Kurux, Oraon or Uranw) is a North Dravidian language spoken by the Kurukh (Oraon) and Kisan people of East India. It is spoken by about two million people in the Indian states of Jharkhand , Chhattisgarh , Odisha , West Bengal , Assam , Bihar and Tripura , as well as by 65,000 in northern Bangladesh , 28,600 of a dialect called Uranw in ...
