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Dravidian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elamo-Dravidian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Elamo-Dravidian languages are a hypothesised language family which includes the living Dravidian languages of India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, in addition to the extinct Elamite language of ancien...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on 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. ... Proto-Dravidian language...
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Online version of T. Burrow's 'A Dravidian etymological dictionary' from the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia ... This presentation of A Dravidian etymological dictionary allows readers to search for all of the information in the indexes to the ink-print edition. Consequently, the indexes and concordance have not...
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To the south of the Kannada territory, more than 1,400,000 people speak Tulu (Tulu), a South Dravidian language having no developed written literature. ... The only Dravidian language that is spoken entirely outside India is Brahui, with about 1,580,000 speakers who live in Sindh and Balochistan provinces of southern Pakistan.
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The earliest Dravidian language to be developed for literary purposes was Tamil, in which there is an extensive corpus of lyric poetry dating to the early centuries of the Christian era.
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Krishnamurti gives a picture of the Proto-Dravidian language, which, given our current knowledge, is complete in its sound (phonological) structure, detailed in its word (morphological) structure and suggestive in its sentence (syntactic) structure.
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