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Dravidian languages

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 four major Dravidian languages are Kannada, having over 40 million speakers; Malayalam, having about 35 million speakers; Tamil, with almost 70 million speakers; and Telugu, with over 70 million speakers. Each of these languages has a noteworthy literature of considerable age. Brahui, another of the Dravidian group, has close to 1 million speakers, in Ba... Read more
Dravidian languages
...million people. The four major Dravidian languages of southern India—Telugu...Pakistan and Afghanistan. Of the Dravidian languages, Tamil has the greatest geographical...early Indo-Aryan dialects. Dravidian languages Dravidian languages Dravidian... Read more
Dravidian
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 languages... Read more

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