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Dravidian  adj.  (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; Telegu, Malayalam, and Kannada are included. These languages are distinct from the Indo-European family of languages.





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... similar to that of the Punans. The Proto-Malays, on the other hand, represent a blending of the Mongol stock (or of a part of the Indonesian race) with darker stock allied to the Dravidians of India, which is perhaps properly called Proto-Dravidian, and of which the Sakai of the Malay peninsula (and, perhaps, the Toala of central Celebes) seem to be the surviving representatives in Malaysia. In this blend, which presumably was effected in an area south of that in which the Indonesian blend was formed, ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall


Words linked to "Dravidian" :   South-Central Dravidian, Kolam, Dravidian language, Tamil, Telugu, Dravidic, Kotar, tongue, Badaga, Central Dravidian, Gond, Tulu, Malto, Savara, North Dravidian, Kui, Canarese, Gadaba, Toda


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