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	Maldives People
		The country is populated by roughly 180,000 people who call themselves Devehi(s) ('islanders'), and their language is Divehi, which is also the ethnographic term.
		The Maldives people are a clear ethnic category, having a unique language derived from Sinhala but grafted on to an earlier Tamil base, and they have a homogeneous cultural tradition.
		Most fundamental is the Dravidian: kinship terms classify kin into those marriable and unmarriable with self; cross-cousin marriage is preferred; girls have a puberty ceremony; and matriliny is possible.
	www.iias.nl /iiasn/iiasn5/insouasi/maloney.html (3042 words)

	Dravidian people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dravidian people, Dravidian race or Dravidians are terms that are some times given to people of India (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 are.
		Notably one Dravidian language, Brahui, is spoken in Pakistan as well minor tribal languages are used in Nepal and Bangladesh, perhaps hinting at the language family's wider distribution prior to the spread of the Indo-Aryan languages.
		According to the Puranas, the Dravidians are descendants of the Vedic Turvasha people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dravidian_race (2094 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica Article on Dravidian languages
		The Dravidian languages are spoken in the Republic of India (mainly in its southern, eastern, and central parts), in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and by settlers in areas of Southeastern Asia, southern and eastern Africa, and elsewhere.
		Kannada (Kanarese), which is spoken by 25,700,000 people in the Indian state of Karnataka, exhibits a dichotomy between educated speech and colloquial Kannada; in the latter at least three social dialects are recognizable that may be characterized as Brahmin, non-Brahmin, and Harijan (“untouchable”).
		Telugu (spoken by 52,986,000 people), the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, exhibits a dichotomy between the written and the spoken styles, in addition to a number of sharply distinct local and regional dialects (including Telangana, coastal area, Rayalaseema, and a “transitional” zone) and divisions between Brahmin, nonBrahmin, and Harijan speech.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/sars238/encybrit.html (3062 words)

	Kolangal: Tamil:
		The school of thought that Dravidian spread beyond the confines south of the Vindhyas (where it is now mainly spoken) has been further substantiated by the fact that a Dravidian language called Brahui is still spoken to this day in parts of Baluchistan, Pakistan and Iran.
		Brahui is the only member of the Dravidian family, which is spoken outside the Indian subcontinent and linguists have not been able to discover the link between the Brahui and the other speakers of Dravidian languages who live thousands of miles away in southern India.
		Until that time Dravidian languages and its peoples were considered to be "uncivilized" and inferior to the Indo-Aryan languages and peoples as gleaned from this unflattering 1893 Census report.
	www.ntyo.org /kolangal/tamilexotic.htm (1349 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brahui people · Kannadigas ;· Malayalis ;· Tamils ;· Telugus ;· Tuluvas ;· Gonds
		The origins of the Tamil people, like those of the other Dravidian peoples, are unknown, although genetic and archaeological evidence suggests a possible migration into India around 6000 BCE.
		The earliest clear evidence of the presence of the Tamil people in modern Tamil Nadu are the megalithic urn burials, dating from around 1000 BCE and onwards, which have been discovered at various locations in Tamil Nadu, notably in Adichanallur.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Tamils (5731 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dravidian people
		Dravidian people, Dravidian race or Dravidians are terms that are some times given to the people of southern, central and northern India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka who currently speak Dravidian languages or historically assumed to have spoken Dravidian languages but no longer are.
		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.
		Dravidian as a racial term is also used extensively by the government of Bangladesh to indicate a founding people of the country
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Dravidian_race (1750 words)

	Munda race and the origins of Kerala People: People and Culture: by Dr. Zacharias Thundy surveys Kerala's ...
		It seems that Stone-Age people deliberately avoided the forests of Kerala infested by Malaria-bearing mosquitoes and man-eating tigers.
		These people, Keralites of Kerala and elsewhere, are, in the view of anthropologists, "an ethnological museum." Several racial strains are easily recognized in the racial composition of the Keralites of different communities.
		The Munda people belong to the Australoid race and speak a family of languages called the Munda family: Korku, Santali, Mundari, Kharia, Saora, Parengi, Gutob, Bonda, and Didey.
	www.shelterbelt.com /KJ/khmundarace.html (1107 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)

	Dravidian Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	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.
	www.indiansaga.com /languages/dravidian_lang.html (323 words)

	The Aryan-Dravidian Controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Britannica Article on Dravidian
		Dravidian languages are spoken in India (mainly in its southern, eastern, and central parts), in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and in diaspora communities in S.E. Asia, Pacific Islands, eastern Africa, and elsewhere.
		Central Dravidian Tribal Languages: In extreme northern Andhra Pradesh and in Maharashtra, the Kolami language is spoken by approximately 84,000 individuals.
		Pakistan: The only Dravidian language that is spoken entirely outside India is Brahui, with about 1,580,000 speakers who live in Sindh and Balochistan provinces of southern Pakistan, and a smaller number in Afghanistan.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/sars238/shortencybrit.html (3071 words)

	Dravidian languages help – Wiki at Help.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 200 million people.
		Some linguistic scholars incorporate the Dravidian languages into a larger Elamo-Dravidian language family, which includes the ancient Elamite language of what is now south-western Iran.
		In addition, Dravidian grammatical impact on the structure and syntax of Indo-Aryan languages is considered far greater than the Indo-Aryan grammatical impact on Dravidian.
	www.help.com /wiki/Dravidian_languages (273 words)

	India Heritage :: Culture :: People
		The Aryans established a dominant presence in the northwest and the Gangetic plain, but the people of Mongoloid descent remained undisturbed in the Himalayan region and the highlands of the northeast.
		Though the Mongoloid people influenced the racial pattern of tribes in the eastern provinces of Orissa and Bihar, by and large, they stayed within central India.
		Tamil is spoken in Tamil Nadu, Telugu in Andhra Pradesh, Kannada in Karnataka and Malayalam in Kerala.
	www.indiaheritage.org /culture/people.htm (357 words)

	File: <dravid
		As a result, these people were timeless and they totally believed that it was their duty to continue with the tasks and ideals of their previous lives.
		The Dravidian peoples chose not to submit and decided to flee from the Indus valley.
		The majority of the Dravidians fled south and entered the area of other tribes which move created a domino effect of new and sometimes bloody conflicts, one of which, the Tamil fight for Sri Lanka, is still making headlines in our newspapers today.
	www.faculty.ucr.edu /~legneref/nyland/dravid0.htm (1631 words)

	The folk-songs of Southern India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is almost impossible to come across the early Dravidian folk literature that has not been systematically corrupted or mutilated by the onslaught of the Puranic legends and the Brahminical influence.
		These songs belong to the plains where dwell the Tamil and Telugu people: the Mysore plateau, the home of the Kannada-speaking; hills and valleys of Nilgris and the Western Ghats, sheltering the tribes of Coorg and the Badagas of Udagamandalam and the low-lying, coastal Kerala, that divides the Ghats from the sea.
		There is no better way of discovering the real feelings and ideas of a people than that afforded by the songs that pass from lip to lip inch their streets and markets.
	www.indiaclub.com /html/9497.htm (224 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 (705 words)

	Incoherent Theories: The Tala people
		The question I always wondered was whether the Dravidian speakers had any clannish identity of their own.
		My inclination is the people of Indus valley spoke languages belonging to different families.
		Now, the earliest people of Vedic India, Kuru and Puru are within the range of sound change of Tulu.
	bantwal.blogspot.com /2006/06/tala-people.html (517 words)

	Tamil History - தமிழ் வரலாறு, ...
		The response of a people to invasion by aliens from a foreign land is a measure of the depth of their roots and the strength of their identity.
		The Sinhala people trace their origins in the island to the arrival of Prince Vijaya from India, around 500 B.C. and the Mahavamsa, the Sinhala chronicle of a later period (6th Century A.D.) records that Prince Vijaya arrived on the island on the same day that the Buddha attained Enlightenment in India.
		Suffering unites a people and the suffering of the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka, in their struggle for freedom and justice, has also served to bring together Tamils living not only in Tamil Eelam and Tamil Nadu but also those living in many other lands.
	www.tamilnation.org /heritage/index.htm (5983 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)

	Dravidian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		We may presume that Dravidian was the language of all of India before ca.1500 B.C., a language which must have been identical, or almost so, with the Saharan language, at the time the migration took place.
		It must be noted that the Basques and the Dravidians have never been in physical contact with each other, living in widely separated areas, therefore the language they shared with the Dravidians must have been acquired from a common, Central Saharan source.
	www.islandnet.com /~nyland/dravidia.htm (1800 words)

	proto saharan religions
		Some Dravidians of South India were also members of the Mande Superclan, as illustrated in the Kannada, Telugu and Tulu, Dravidian tribes that use the terms Mande or Mandi to denote "people or persons".
		The Dravidian equivalent to Anu, or bull worship was Anu-Rupa or Siva.
		The marriage of the Dravidian cult goddess Paravati, in Siva temples to insure effectively the fecundity and prosperity of the Dravidian people is analogous to the holy marriage of Dumuzi and Inanna, the Sumerian mother-goddess.
	www.ipoaa.com /proto_saharan_religions.htm (2973 words)

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		Using the evidence of cognate scripts and the analogy between the Dravidian language, and the languages spoken by peoples using cognate scripts it was able to make three assumptions leading to the decipherment of the Harappan writing.
		The importance of the Harappan seals as amulets is attested too by the popularity of wearing totems among the Dravidians.
		C.A. "The Proto-Culture of the Dravidians, Manding and Sumerians", Tamil Civilization, 3(1), pp.1-9.
	www.geocities.com /olmec982000/Indus.html (1749 words)

	A PROBLEM OF HISTORY- RE VISITED - II
		It has therefore been suggested that the Dravidian people migrated to South India from a region, still undetermined, in Western Asia, and that they sojourned for some time in the region around Karacci in Sindh, where groups of megaliths similar to those in South India have been reported.
		Dravidianisation of South India has come after its Aryanisation and no wander that the people stuck to most of the gods in the Vedic religions even after Dravidianisation.
		The first Dravidian attack on Ceylon recorded in the Chronicles is said to have been led by Sena and Guttika, described as merchant mariners who dealt in horses.
	www.infolanka.com /org/kalaya/fea031.htm (2225 words)

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