Definition of Dravidian language

1. Noun. A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Dravidian Language

Dragon
Dragon Li
Dragunov
Draize test
Draize tests
Drake
Drake equation
Drama
Drambuie
Drangiana
Draper's law
Draskhanakert
Drava
Drave
Dravidian
Dravidian language (current term)
Dravidians
Dravidic
Drayton
Dreaming
Dreamtime
Drechslera
Dred Scott
Dreiser
Dreissena polymorpha
Drenthe
Drepanididae
Drepanis
Dresden
Dresdenware

Literary usage of Dravidian language

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"Kolami, a Dravidian language, University of California Publications in Linguistics 12 ... "Toda, a Dravidian language." Trans. Philological Soc. 1957: pp. ..."

2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"The Dravidian language, however, ... and languages have in themselves an intimate archaic connection with the African, and the Dravidian language, although. ..."

3. Linguistic and Oriental Essays: Written from the Year 1840-1903 by Robert Needham Cust (1880)
"The fifth Dravidian language is the Tulu, on the west coast, adjacent to the Malayalam, and three languages spoken by small clans of mountaineers in the ..."

4. A History of Missions in India by Julius Richter (1908)
"They obviously speak a Dravidian language, but they are so widely separated from the other ... How they obtain their Dravidian language no one can tell. ..."

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