Dravidian peoples - Wikipedia
The Dravidian peoples, Dravidian-speakers or Dravidians, are a collection of ethnolinguistic groups native to South Asia who speak Dravidian languages. There are around 250 million native speakers of Dravidian languages. [1]
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2024年9月26日 · 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.
Dravidian languages - Wikipedia
Dravidian languages are mostly located in the southern and central parts of south Asia with 2 main outliers, Brahui having speakers in Balochistan and as far north are Merv, Turkmenistan and Kurukh to the east in Jharkhand and as far northeast as Bhutan, Nepal and Assam.
The Enigmatic Origins of the Dravidian Languages ... - The …
April 19, 2024. The genetic and linguistic tapestry of the Indian subcontinent is remarkably complex, consisting of a rich mosaic of ancestries and languages that have evolved over thousands of years. Among these, the Dravidian languages, spoken by millions in the southern and central parts of India, present a fascinating case of linguistic and ...
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2018年4月23日 · Dravidian languages make up a family of languages spoken in parts of southern Asia, including India and Sri Lanka.
The Dravidians may be divided into four main divisions according to the languages they speak, viz., 2Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kanarese. Tamil : This language is probably the earliest cultivated of the Dravidian languages. This is spoken, …
Dravidian languages summary | Britannica
Dravidian languages, Family of 24 languages indigenous to and spoken principally in South Asia by more than 214 million people. Four of the Dravidian languages are among the major literary languages of southern India—Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.
Dravidian language family is approximately 4,500 years old
2018年3月27日 · Map of the Dravidian languages in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal. Languages present in the dataset used in this paper are indicated by name, with languages with long (950+ years) literatures in bold.
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While concentrated primarily in south and central India, several Dravidian languages, such as Tamil, have spread through commerce and colonization to Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore as well as eastern Africa and parts of the Caribbean.
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2018年3月21日 · Map of the Dravidian languages in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal. Languages present in the dataset used in this paper are indicated by name, with languages with long (950+ years) literatures in bold.