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- South Dravidian (also called "South Dravidian I") is one of the four major branches of the Dravidian languages family. It includes the literary languages Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Tulu, as well as several non-literary languages such as Badaga, Irula, Kota, Kurumba, Toda and Kodava.
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Dravidian languages are mostly located in the southern and central parts of south Asia with 2 main outliers, Brahui having speakers in Balochistan and as far north are Merv, Turkmenistan and Kurukh to the east in Jharkhand and as far northeast as Bhutan, Nepal and Assam.
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States and union territories of India by the most spoken...
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Proto-Dravidian is the linguistic reconstruction of the...
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Malankuravan (Mala Koravan, Malakkuravan) is an unclassified...
- Kodava
The Kodava (Kodava:) (Kodava takk, Kodava: [koɖɐʋɐ t̪ɐkːɨ],...
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Duruwa is a member of the Central Dravidian languages. [2]...
- Kurumba
Kurumba (also known as Kuruba in Karnataka and Kuruma in...
- South Dravidian languages
South Dravidian (also called "South Dravidian I") is one of...
- Dravidian Peoples
The Dravidian peoples are an ethnolinguistic supraethnicity...
- Proto-South Dravidian language
Proto-South Dravidian is the linguistic reconstruction of...
- Official Languages of India
Apr 9, 2024 · Dravidian languages, family of some 70 languages spoken primarily in South Asia. The Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 215 million people in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. They are divided into South, South-Central, Central, and North groups; these groups are further organized into 24 subgroups.
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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.
- One of the world's major language families
- Proto-Dravidian
- Central, Eastern, Southern
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.
