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	Dravidian - LoveToKnow 1911
		The various Dravidian languages, with the number of speakers returned at the census of 1901, are as follows: Of these Tamil and Malayalam can be considered as two dialects of one and the same language, which is, in its turn, closely related to Kanarese.
		In the north-eastern part of the Dravidian territory, to the east of Chanda and Bhandara, the usual state of affairs is that Dravidian dialects are spoken in the hills while Aryan forms of speech prevail in the plains.
		The oldest known specimen of a Dravidian language occurs in a Greek play which is preserved in a papyrus of the 2nd century A.D. The exact period to which the indigenous literature can be traced back, on the other hand, has not been fixed with certainty.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dravidian (2235 words)

	Dravidian languages - Encyclopedia.com
		Dravidian languages, family of about 23 languages that appears to be unrelated to any other known language family.
		It is thought that the Dravidian tongues are derived from a language spoken in India prior to the invasion of the Aryans c.1500 BC Dravidian languages are noted for retroflex and liquid sound types.
		The Dravidian languages have their own alphabets, which go back to a common source that is related to the Devanagari alphabet used for Sanskrit.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Dravidia-l.html (1115 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Dravidian languages
		Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 200 million people, and they appear to be unrelated to languages of other known families.
		The Dravidian language family was first described in 1816 by Francis Ellis[?], a British civil servant who recognized the relationship between the four literary languages as well as Tulu, Kodagu and Malto.
		Phonetically, Dravidian languages are notably characterized by a three-way distinction between dental[?], alveolar, and retroflex[?] places of articulation.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/dr/Dravidian_languages (223 words)

	Dravidian languages - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and eastern and central India, as well as in parts of Afghanistan and Iran.
		The origins of the Dravidian languages, as well as their subsequent development and the period of their differentiation, are unclear, and the situation is not helped by the lack of comparative linguistic research into the Dravidian languages.
		Dravidian languages are also characterized by a three-way distinction between dental, alveolar, and retroflex places of articulation as well as large numbers of liquids.
	www.recipeland.com:8080 /facts/Dravidian_languages (878 words)

	Dravidian Languages - ninemsn Encarta
		Thus the Dravidian family constitutes one of the most populous language families in India, as does the Indo-Aryan (a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages).
		Since some of the minor Dravidian languages are spoken in the far north-east and north-west of India, linguists have reason to suppose that this family formerly covered a much greater area than it does today.
		As a written language of learning, Sanskrit seems to have exerted strong influence even on the earliest known Dravidian language, and in the modern Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu languages, Sanskrit loanwords retain the four distinctions between stop consonants that are characteristic of Indo-Aryan but not of Dravidian.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781534918/Dravidian_Languages.html (375 words)

	The Individualist: Dravidian language family
		The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and eastern and central India, as well as in parts of Afghanistan and Iran.
		The origins of the Dravidian languages, as well as their subsequent development and the period of their differentiation, are unclear, and the situation is not helped by the lack of comparative linguistic research into the Dravidian languages.
		Dravidian languages are also characterized by a three-way distinction between dental, alveolar, and retroflex places of articulation as well as large numbers of liquids.
	www.dadamo.com /wiki/wiki.pl/Dravidian_language_family (822 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dravidian languages (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Dravidian languages[druvid´Eun] Pronunciation Key, family of about 23 languages that appears to be unrelated to any other known language family.
		There are many words of Indic origin in the Dravidian languages, which in turn have contributed a number of words to the Indic tongues.
		The Dravidian languages have their own alphabets, which go back to a common source that is related to the Devanagari alphabet used for Sanskrit.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Dravidia-l.html (408 words)

	Facts about Dravidian languages
		The adjective Dravidian defines a family of languages differentiating it from other families of languages in India, which are Indo-Aryan, Munda and Tibeto-Burman, though it is commonly opposed with the first.
		The goal of research in Dravidian linguistics is to reconstruct the parent of the contemporary Dravidian languages from their shared native words and grammatical features, which show regular patterns of correspondence across languages.
		The Dravidians were engaged in settled agriculture in wet and dry lands and used domesticated animals and birds (ox, cow, sheep, pig, donkey, dog, cat, chicken) and metal implements (plough, pick-axe, crowbar).
	www.flonnet.com /fl2022/stories/20031107000807300.htm (1892 words)

	ETRUSCAN, A DRAVIDIAN TONGUE?
		In order to render the identification of the individual Dravidian roots and words we followed the genial numbering scheme devised by Burrows and Emeneau (BE) in their magistral work which indeed sets new, seminal trends in Linguistics.
		And this Dravidian influence on Sanskrit is in itself a remarkable discovery that may revolutionize the science of Linguistics by itself alone.
		The -cc’- may just be the usual Dravidian connective, which later got permanently attached to the root, as is often the case in that tongue.
	www.verbix.com /documents/etruscan-dravidian.htm (13746 words)

	Dravidian Language Family
		At present, speakers of the Dravidian languages are concentrated in the southern portion of India, while speakers of the Indo-Aryan language predominate in the northern portion of the country.
		Dravidian languages are agglutinative, i.e., i.e., grammatical relations are indicated by the addition of suffixes to stems.
		Dravidian languages are written with syllabic alphabets in which all consonants have an inherent vowel.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/april/DravidianLanguageFamily.htm (729 words)

	Dravidian people
		Notably one Dravidian language, Brahui, is spoken in Pakistan, perhaps hinting at the language family's wider distribution prior to the spread of the Indo-Aryan languages.
		The identification of the Dravidian people as a separate race arose from the realization by 19th-century Western scholars that there existed a group of languages spoken by people in the south of India, which were completely unrelated to the Indo-Aryan languages prevalent in the north of the country.
		The South Indian Dravidians have been in some respects the best preservers of ancient Vedic culture and traditions, especially when the north of India was dominated by Buddhism and later was affected by Islam.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DDravidians%26type%3Den (2053 words)

	Is the Dravidian movement dying?
		The Dravidian movement is on the verge of collapse under the weight of its inherent ideological contradictions.
		Since the Dravidian movement's focus was defined and set solely against the Brahmins, without an ideological structure for developing a pan non-Brahmin consciousness, with the movement's founding, the seeds of its demise were also planted.
		Under Periyar the Dravidian movement came close to developing an ideology that could have provided a durable basis for its survival, but even Periyar could not overcome the erroneous assumptions and basic internal contradictions on which it was founded.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl2012/stories/20030620003609800.htm (1704 words)

	Dravidian Culture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dravidian is the name given to a linguistically related group of people in India.
		Dravidian culture is very diverse, with some groups maintaining more traditional customs such as totemism and matralinealism, while others have developed the lifestyles of a modern technological society.
		Dravidian language has remained relatively intact despite a considerable amount of contact and intermarriage with other people in the Indian subcontinent.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/middle_east/dravidian.html (460 words)

	The Aryan-Dravidian Controversy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of these ideas is that India is a land of two races - the lighter- skinned Aryans and the darker-skinned Dravidians - and that the Dravidians were the original inhabitants of India whom the invading Aryans conquered and dominated.
		The difference between the so-called Aryans of the north and Dravidians of the south is not a racial division.
		Dravidians do not have to feel that Vedic culture is any more foreign to them than it is to the people of north India.
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_frawley_1.html (3577 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gondi people (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Telugu belongs to the family of Dravidian languages and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
		The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, and eastern and central India.
		Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gondi-people (1200 words)

	DRAVIDIAN,
		Properly, the term Dravidian applies to language rather than to race because, although the languages have remained relatively pure, the present-day Dravidians have intermixed racially with many other groups.
		Because of the mix of races, the culture of the Dravidians is equally diverse.
		Totemism, kinship in the female line, and other primitive customs are found among some Dravidians; in contrast, a high state of civilization, embracing a literature and architectural skill, exists among other Dravidian groups.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..dr084700.a (173 words)

	Languages of India
		Dravidian languages form a group by themselves, and unlike the Aryan, Austric or Sino-Tibetan speeches, have no relation outside the Indian subcontinent, that is, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
		The Dravidian family is the second largest group in India, covering about 25% of the total Indian population.
		Dravidians have lived in the area for at least 4,500 years, and Dravidian languages have a recorded history of more than 2,000 years.
	indiansaga.com /languages/dravidian_lang.html (323 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dravidian people, Dravidian race or Dravidians are terms that are some times given to people of mainly Southern India, Northern Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal who currently speak Dravidian languages or are historically assumed to have spoken Dravidian languages but no longer do.
		In that perspective it is therefore more likely that the Dravidian speakers of South India were already living in the region and were merely one of the groups little affected by the initial Indo-Aryan migration.
		Dravidian as a racial term is also used extensively by the government of Bangladesh to indicate a founding people of the country
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Dravidians (1809 words)

	BhashaIndia.com :: Dravidian Language
		The origins of the term "Dravidian" lies in the employment of terms like "dramila", "dramida" and "dravida" found in Sanskrit sources designating, respectively, the people, region or language of the whole of South India.
		The Dravidian language family is categorized into three sub-groups - South, Central and North Dravidian by modern linguistic researchers, based on the large element of correlation between geography and shared linguistic features inherent to languages within a certain region.
		This is indicative of the possible co-existential relationships between the tribes of the South and these parts of the subcontinent and could also be a hint that the speakers of these two languages are descendants of migrants from the South.
	www.bhashaindia.com /Patrons/LanguageTech/Dravidian.aspx (637 words)

	Dravidian India
		Our savant notes, "The fact that several Dravidian dialects, such as Brahui, Villi [Bhilli], and Santal, are found stranded in the midst of other tongues in Baluchistan, Rajaputana and Central India testifies to te once universal diffusion of the Dravidians in India." (Iyengar 1925, p.21) Little wonder that he named his work "Dravidian India".
		It is therefore contended that the bronze and iron age culture of Adichanallur is that of the early Dravidians.
		But once their race had been blended with the Dravidian, the mixed stock which resulted from the union, found itself possessed of the means of putting thoughts into visible concrete form.
	www.saxakali.com /southasia/dravidian_india.htm (8788 words)

	Dravidian@Everything2.com
		The Dravidian languages of today are spoken primarily in South India, though it is believed to be the language of the Indus Valley Civilization in present day Pakistan and North-West India.
		The Dravidian languages have an affinity for liquids and are inflected languages.
		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.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=Dravidian (606 words)

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