About The Word Dravidian
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Dravidian
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What's The Definition Of Dravidian?
[n] a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka
[n] a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them) Synonyms | Synonyms for Dravidian: Dravidian language | Dravidic Related Terms | Find terms related to Dravidian: See Also | Badaga | Canarese | Central Dravidian | Gadaba | Gond | Indian | Kanarese | Kodagu | Kolam | Kota | Kotar | Kui | Malto | natural language | North Dravidian | Savara | South Dravidian | South-Central Dravidian | Tamil | Telugu | Toda | tongue | Tulu Dravidian In Webster's Dictionary \Dra*vid"i*an\, a. [From Skr. Dr[=a]vi[dsdot]a, the
name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India.]
(Ethnol.)
Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
{Dravidian languages}, a group of languages of Southern
India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives,
before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these
languages, the Tamil is the most important.
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