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3 days ago · Dravidian culture and history. The Dravidian languages (sometimes called Dravidic [2]) 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.
4 days ago · The Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 215 million people in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The Dravidian languages are divided into South, South-Central, Central, and North groups; these groups are further organized into 24 subgroups. The four major literary languages— Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada —are recognized by the ...
Apr 19, 2024 · This timeline and location suggest that the Dravidian languages may have originated in the Indus Valley itself before spreading southwards across the Indian subcontinent. Genetic Evidence and Linguistic Correlations
3 days ago · They are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India and are used by various languages in several language families in South, East and Southeast Asia: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, Mongolic, Austroasiatic, Austronesian, and Tai.
3 days ago · The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 73 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and northeastern Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and eastern and central India, as well as in parts of southern Afghanistan, and overseas in other countries such as the United Kingdom, United States ...
2 days ago · Tamil, people originally of southern India who speak Tamil, one of the principal languages of the Dravidian family.
May 3, 2024 · Brāhmī,, writing system ancestral to all Indian scripts except Kharoṣṭhī. Of Aramaic derivation or inspiration, it can be traced to the 8th or 7th century bc, when it may have been introduced to Indian merchants by people of Semitic origin. Brāhmī is semialphabetic, each consonant having either an inherent a sound pronounced after it ...
