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	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 - 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.
		Tamil, Malayalam, Kanarese and Telugu are the principal literary languages.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dravidian (2235 words)

	Dravidian Languages - MSN 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.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781534918/Dravidian_Languages.html (375 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Dravidian languages (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 - 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)

	Facts about Dravidian languages
		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).
		Absence of words for some concepts in the language may not suggest absence of those concepts in the culture, but may be suggestive of coding those concepts by expressions larger than words and of loss of the native words by replacement with words from another language in contact.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2022/stories/20031107000807300.htm (1892 words)

	Dravidian languages - an introduction - Citizendium
		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.
		The existence of the Dravidian language family was first suggested in 1816 by Alexander D. Campbell in his Grammar of the Teloogoo Language, in which he and Francis W. Ellis argued that Tamil and Telugu were descended from a common, non-Indo-European ancestor.
		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.
	en.citizendium.org /wiki/Dravidian_languages (1079 words)

	Dravidian languages - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Even though the Dravidian languages are thought to be distinctly different from the Indo-Aryan languages, there are thirty to seventy per cent Sanskrit words in south Indian languages like Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, which can be attributed to the heavy borrowing of vocabulary from Sanskrit over the millennia during which the two language families coexisted.
		Caldwell coined the term "Dravidian" from the Sanskrit drÄvida, which was used in a 7th century text to refer to the Tamil language of the south of India.
		It would be wrong to say that the languages have been completely influenced by sanskrit but it can safely be said that they have included a lot of sanskrit words in their vocabulary, as every language has colloquial and natively original vocab.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=Dravidian_languages (1517 words)

	Languages of India
		Indo-European and Dravidian languages are used by a large majority of India's population.
		Languages of the Indo-European group are spoken mainly in northern and central regions.
		The languages of southern India are mainly of the Dravidian group.
	indiansaga.com /languages/index.html (387 words)

	Indian Languages, languages in India
		In spite of the profound influence of the Sanskrit language and Sanskritic culture on the Dravidian languages, a strong consciousness of the distinctness of Dravidian languages from Sanskrit remained.
		Languages entering South Asia were "Indianized." Scholars cite the presence of retroflex consonants, characteristic structures in verb formations, and a significant amount of vocabulary in Sanskrit with Dravidian or Austroasiatic origin as indications of mutual borrowing, influences, and counterinfluences.
		Sometimes the word language is applied to a standardized and prestigious form, recognized as such over a large geographic area, whereas the word dialect is used for the various forms of speech that lack prestige or that are restricted to certain regions or castes but are still regarded as forms of the same language.
	www.indianchild.com /indian_languages.htm (2475 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.
		The Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 200 million people, living chiefly in S and central India and N Sri Lanka.
		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)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dravidian languages
		Dravidian is one of the primary linguistic groups in the proposed Nostratic language system, linking almost all languages in North Africa, Europe and Western Asia into a common family with its origins in the Fertile Crescent sometime between the last Ice Age and the emergence of proto-Indo-European 4-6 thousand years BC.
		The origins of the Dravidian languages, as well as their subsequent development and the period of their differentiation are unclear, partially due to the lack of comparative linguistic research into the Dravidian languages.
		Dravidian origin of the Guanches A paper claiming a Dravidian origin for the language of the Guanches.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Dravidian_languages (2191 words)

	Indian Languages - MSN Encarta
		Indian Languages, the indigenous languages spoken on the Indian subcontinent, the vast majority of which belong either to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family (see Indo-European Languages) or to the non-Indo-European Dravidian family.
		In Pakistan, the official language is Urdu; the official language of Bangladesh is Bengali.
		It referred to the mixed Western Hindi-Urdu language that developed in the camps and marketplaces around Delhi, was spread throughout India from the 16th to 18th century, and functioned as a lingua franca among the different language groups.) Bengali is spoken in West Bengal and by almost the entire population of Bangladesh.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578153/Indian_Languages.html (1089 words)

	The Aryan-Dravidian Controversy
		Sanskrit and the languages of North India were found to be relatives of the languages of Europe, while the Dravidian languages of south India were found to be another language family.
		The Hungarians and Finns of Europe are of a different language group than the other Europeans, but we do not speak of them as of a Finnish race, or the Finns as being non-Europeans, nor do we consider that their religious beliefs must therefore be unrelated to those of the rest of Europe.
		In addition the traditional inventor of the Dravidian languages was said to have been none other than Agastya, one of the most important rishis of the Rig Veda, the oldest Sanskrit text.
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_frawley_1.html (3577 words)

	Kerala Literature, Malayalam Literature, Learn Malayalam Free, Free Malayalam Learning, Malayalam Literature, ...
		Malayalam is the principal language of the South Indian state of Kerala and also of the Lakshadweep Islands of the west coast of India.
		Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 200 million people, and they appear to be unrelated to languages of other known families.
		The spelling of languages written in Devanagari is partly phonetic in the sense that a word written in it can only be pronounced in one way, but not all possible pronunciations can be written perfectly.
	kerals.com /malayalam/literature.htm (1171 words)

	Peoples and languages (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The language of the first wave, which remained confined to the Pamir mountains of Pakistan, is identified as Dardic while the second one may be called Indic.
		This language, opines Gankovsky, was probably made up of elements from the languages of the 'local pre-Indo-European population and Indo-Aryan tribes, as well as the Dardic and East-Iranian ethnic elements'.
		These languages have not generally been used in the domains of power because the rulers of this region were generally foreigners.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/subject/peoplesandlanguages.html (6627 words)

	The Dravidian Problem - M.D.Raghavan
		The first of these theories that the Dravidians are the children of the soil, takes us back to the days of pre-history and beyond to the geologic eras, to the Gondwanaland of the Perm Carboniferous Age and to the submerged continent of Lemuria, the land mass considered to have once covered either side of India.
		The Dravidian problem has so many ramifications, that in the very nature of the subject, it is hard to come to a finality on the implications of the problem.
		All that we are clear about, is the linguistic status of the Dravidian family of languages, and of Tamil in particular, in the days of the Sangam Age, closing phase of the pre-Christian era and the early centuries of the Christian era.
	www.tamilnation.org /heritage/dravidianproblem.htm (4109 words)

	Indian Languages, Languages Of India, Major Languages Spoken In India, Different Languages Of India.
		English language, the legacy of the British rule in India, became the commonly used official language of India.
		It is the authoritative legislative and judicial language.
		A language of Karnataka and is spoken by 65 percent of the state's population.
	languages.iloveindia.com (634 words)

	Dravidian Languages: Vedic Sanskrit
		The 4 major Dravidian tongues are recognized as official state languages—Tamil in Tamil Nadu, Telugu in Andhra Pradesh, Kannada (Kanarese) in Mysore, and Malayalam in Kerala.
		It credits the invention of the Tamil language, the oldest Dravidian tongue, to the rishi Agastya, one of the most prominent sages in the Rig Veda.
		Dravidian kings historically have called themselves Aryans and trace their descent through Manu (who in the Matsya Purana is regarded as originally a south Indian king).
	www.lycos.com /info/dravidian-languages--vedic-sanskrit.html (600 words)

	Dravidian languages — FactMonster.com
		Dravidians - Dravidians Dravidians, name sometimes given to the peoples of S and central India and N Sri Lanka...
		Elamite - Elamite Elamite, extinct language of uncertain relationship that was once spoken in the ancient...
		Kanarese - Kanarese Kanarese or Kannada, Dravidian language of India.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0816081.html (358 words)

	RBC RADIO - Languages of India
		The ancestors of this language are the Indo-Aryan.
		It is the language of the Indian immigrants in East Africa, Britain, and America.
		It is the official language of the State of Orissa, where the Oriya speaking population comprises around 82% of the total population.
	www.rbcradio.com /knowlanguages.html (1706 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		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.
		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 are very different from the Indo-Aryan languages prevalent in the north of the country.
		Dravidians were envisaged as early inhabitants of India who had been partially displaced and assimilated by Aryan language speaking populations.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Dravidians (1809 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.
		Tamil, the state language of Tamil Nadu, apparently the oldest and the purest branch of the Dravidian family.
		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)

	Tamil
		Languages such as Kolami, Parji, Naiki, Gondi, Ku, Kuvi, Konda, Malta, Oroan, Gadba, Khurukh, and Brahui are examples of Dravidian languages prevalent in the North.
		Tamil was the language of bureaucracy, of literati and of culture for several centuries in Kerala.
		In spoken language vaazaippazam (Å¡¨ÆôÀÆõ) is pronounced to the detestation of scholars as vaaLappaLam (Å¡ÇôÀÇõ) and Vaayappayam (Å¡ÂôÀÂõ).
	www.eng.auburn.edu /users/dhavapr/id29.htm (5991 words)

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