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Dravidian

Dravidian Meaning & Definition
Dravidian Definition And Meaning

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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