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Dravidian   Listen
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Dravidian  adj.  (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
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. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important; Telegu, Malayalam, and Kannada are included. These languages are distinct from the Indo-European family of languages.






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"Dravidian" Quotes from Famous Books



... character of original Hindu art. The great stone-paved court once contained an imposing group of twenty pyramidal shrines, but only three remain in the original contour of the so-called "pagoda style," peculiar to the Dravidian temples of Southern India, from whence Java derived her special form of faith. The ruins on the opposite side of the grey quadrangle are mere cone-shaped piles of rubbish, dust, and broken stone, but the tapering pyramids, with their graceful galleries ...
— Through the Malay Archipelago • Emily Richings



Words linked to "Dravidian" :   Tulu, Kotar, Badaga, Kota, North Dravidian, South-Central Dravidian, Gond, Canarese, tongue, Dravidic, Indian, Gadaba



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