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. The Dravidian languages are divided into South, South-Central, Central, and North groups; these groups are further organized into 24 subgroups. The four major literary languages—Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada—are recognized by the constitution of India. They are also the official languages of the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka (formerly Mysore), respectively. There is considerable literature on the theory that India is a linguistic area where different language
Using new linguistic analyses, a study, co-authored by the University of Bristol, has shown that the Dravidian languages – spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, date back to about 4,500 years ago.
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A new research paper shows that it was migration that took the Dravidian languages from the Indus basin to their modern location in South India.
Tamil is part of the Dravidian language family spoken by Tamil people in India, Sri Lanka, and Singapore. It is one of the most ancient languages in the world.
Kannada is one of the major Dravidian languages of India, spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka. People who speak Kannada are calle...
Brahmi script (original Dravidiyan (Drumila) language from which all the five Dravidian languages came forth, Tamil, Telugu, Kanarese and Malayalam)
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Badaga is a southern Dravidian language spoken in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern India by about 134,000 people.
Kannada is a Southern Dravidian language spoken mainly in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
Tulu is a Southern Dravidian language spoken by about 1.85 million people mainly in Karnataka and Kerala in southern India.
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