Barisal
Barisal , city (1991 pop. 170,232), S Bangladesh, on the Ganges River delta. It is an important river port, a transshipment point for jute and rice, and a market for betel nuts and fish. There are also flour, rice, oilseed, and jute mills. Barisal has 15 colleges affiliated with the Univ. of Dhaka. The "Barisal guns," unexplained sounds resembling distant thunder or cannon, are a curious local phenomenon; they may have a seismic origin.
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Analysis to Synthesis: The Development of Complex Verb Morphology in the Dravidian Languages.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...pleasure to review a book on Dravidian (Dr.) linguistics that...synthetic verb forms in the Dr. languages through the process of compound...entitled simply "The Dravidian Languages," is, in a way, the most...world's fourth-largest language family (indeed, a number of non-literary ...
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The Dravidian Languages.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; The Dravidian Languages. By BHADRIRAJU KRISHNAMURTI. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE...xxvii + 545. $95. The Dravidian Languages is the latest installment in the Cambridge Language Surveys. While synchronic descriptions...
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HLA-A allele frequency and haplotype distribution in the dravidian tribal communities of south India
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Human Genetics; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...people of southern India speak languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. The tribal communities...belonging to the most primitive Dravidian speaking communities. The...communities of Kerala.[3] These Dravidian speaking forest dwelling...
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Dravidian Linguistics: An Introduction.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; The Dravidian family is made up of some two dozen languages (the exact number...first half-dozen language families according...available books on Dravidian for the general...other families or languages, and about one...connection: "Dravidian and Harappan" (i.e., the language, ...
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Dravidian in the Light of Nostratic
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Dravidian in the Light of Nostratic...above-mentioned groups of languages, discusses sound correspondences...connect Dravidian with other languages and suggests, in my view...elements from "some previous language group." All this is, of...monogenesis or polygenesis of languages, and ...
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Cultural and political contributions of Blacks in The Dravidians
Newspaper article from: Tennessee TRIBUNE, The; 4/25/1995; ; 511 words
; ...Tamil. The story of the Dravidians is complex, with various...origins, their racial and language amalgamations and their present...historians postulate that the Dravidians' ancestors were not indigenous...Aravaanan, an authority on Dravidian culture and civilization, claims that the ...
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A History of Modern India: Non-Brahmin basis of the Dravidian
Newspaper article from: India Abroad; 6/27/1997; 700+ words
; ...aspirations to develop regional languages, literatures and cultures...the antiquity of the Tamil language over Sanskrit; and the...subjugated the original "Dravidian" civilization in the South...a doctor, founded the "Dravidian Home," a hostel for non...two years, he started the Dravidian ...
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THE EVOLUTION OF DRAVIDIAN KINSHIP SYSTEMS IN OCEANIA: LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...a bifurcate merging Dravidian system, compares the...1921: 150, 155) "language moves down time in a...Kryukov, 'no evidence of Dravidian having been formed as...1983) monograph on the language of West Futuna-Aniwa...was transformed into a Dravidian terminology and it answers...
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Velars, uvulars, and the North Dravidian hypothesis.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Brahui was a traditional house language of the Khan. (2) Three...frame, held Brahui not to be Dravidian, but closely related. The...Parts 2 and 3) of The Brahui Language, which is primarily an etymological...k > x found in these languages. He pointed out a handful...morphological parallels with ...
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Dravidian Studies: Selected Papers.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...particular discipline. In Dravidian studies, these works include...any doubt to this category. Dravidian studies without Emeneau are...three papers or chapters on "Dravidian linguistics" and four papers...Ir. mele (cf. The Irula Language [1973], 12-13). Chapter...
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Dravidian languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dravidian languages , 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...
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Dravidians
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...The evidence of early Dravidians comes from studying the Indo-Aryan culture, languages, and findings at many mounds...prototype of the god Shiva. Dravidians had an advanced city culture...skinned — a Dravidian feature. Yet another view...Oraos, some of which were Dravidians. One ...
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Dravidian
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Dravidian Family of languages spoken in s India by c. 10 million people. The four major Dravidian languages are Telugu, Tamil, Kannada...Brahui is spoken in Pakistan. Dravidian languages are unrelated to Indic...
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Tamil
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...belongs to the Dravidian Language Stock, which includes at least 21 languages mostly in south...Indo-Aryan languages of north India...largest Dravidian languages are spoken in...south India. The language and script of...
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Gond
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Half of the Gonds speak a Dravidian language called Gondi at present...Gondavana the Gonds speak a language called Parsi or Parji (Persian...Gonds often speak the local language, a dialect of Hindi or Marathi...is closely related to the languages of those regions. R. V...
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