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13. THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN INDIAN ANTIQUITY
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- This is certainly consistent with Dravidian traditions which recall flourishing cities that were either lost or destroyed in antiquity. The term "Dravidian," however, encompasses both an ethnic group and a linguistic group. ...
- We find a prototype of this race in India: the Dravidian. ... Thus, it is inexact, anti-scientific, to do anthropological research, encounter a Dravidian type, and then conclude that the Negro type is absent. ...
- Dravidian, in addition to its ethnic component, however, is an important family of languages spoken by more than a hundred million people, primarily in South India. ... The term "Dravidian" itself is apparently an Aryan corruption of Tamil.
- three major Dravidian kingdoms existed in South India: the kingdoms of Pandya, Chera and Chola. Pandya was the southernmost Dravidian kingdom. ...
- It seems readily apparent that the Dravidian kingdoms and the Dravidian people were quite well known internationally. When Augustus became head of the Roman world, for example, the Dravidian kingdoms sent him a congratulatory embassy. Dravidian poets describe Roman ships, which carried bodyguards of archers to ward off pirates, while the Dravidian kings themselves employed bodyguards of Roman soldiers. In respect to the ancient East, at least one author has identified a Dravidian presence in the Philippines, noting that: "From India came civilized Indians, the Dravidians from whom the savage Aryans learned. ...
14. Dravidian languages
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- Dravidian languages .
- 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. ... Brahui, another of the Dravidian group, has close to 1 million speakers, in Baluchistan. It is thought that the Dravidian tongues are derived from a language spoken in India prior to the invasion of the Aryans c. ... Dravidian languages are noted for retroflex and liquid sound types. ... In the Dravidian languages great use is made of suffixes (but not of prefixes) with nouns and verbs. There are many words of Indic origin in the Dravidian languages, which in turn have contributed a number of words to the Indic tongues. The Dravidian languages have their own alphabets, which go back to a common source that is related to the Devanagari alphabet used for Sanskrit. ...
- , A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary (1984).
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- Telugu - Telugu , Dravidian language of India: see Dravidian languages.
- Tamil - Tamil , Dravidian language of India. See Dravidian languages.
- Brahui - Brahui , Dravidian language of Baluchistan. See Dravidian languages.
15. Hurrian-Urartuan, Sumerian, Dravidian and Ural Altaian suffixes, prefixes, word particles - LanguageServer - University of Graz
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- Hurrian-Urartuan, Sumerian, Dravidian and Ural Altaian suffixes, prefixes, word particles.
16. History of India - Myth of Aryan Invasion - Facets of India : Ancient and Modern
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- The Aryan/Dravidian Divide .
- This connection between Lavana and Ravana suggests that Ravana himself was a Yadu, a Gujarati migrant to Sri Lanka, not a Dravidian. ...
- The Aryan/Dravidian Divide .
- The languages of South India are Dravidian, which is a different linguistic group than the Indo-European languages of the North of the subcontinent. The two groups of languages have many different root words (though a number in common we might add), and above all a different grammatical structure, the Dravidian being agglutinative and the Indo-European being inflected. Dravidian languages possess a very old history of their own, which their legends, the Tamil Sangha literature, show a history in South India and Sri Lanka dating back over five thousand years. ...
- As the Aryans were made into a race, so were the Dravidians and the Aryan/Dravidian divide was turned into a racial war, the Aryan invaders versus the indigenous Dravidians of Harappa and Mohenjodaro. ... Even the Dravidian kings called themselves Aryan. ... Hence to place Aryan against Dravidian as terms is itself a misuse of language. Be that as it may, the Aryan and Dravidian divide has also failed to prove itself.
- Now it has been determined that there is no such thing scientifically speaking as Aryan and Dravidian races. The so-called Aryans and Dravidian races of India are members of the same Mediterranean branch of the Caucasian race, which prevailed in the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Sumeria and is still the main group in the Mediterranean area, North Africa, and the Middle East. ...
- This suggests that the Dravidian branch of the Mediterranean race must have lived in South India for some thousands of years to make this adjustment, and the same thing could be said of the people of North India as well if we would make them originally light-skinned invaders from the north.
- It is now known that Dravidian languages, with their agglutinative patterns, share common traits and are of the same broad linguistic group as such Asian and East European languages as Finnish, Hungarian, old Bulgarian, Turkish, Mongolian and Japanese, the Finno-Ugric and Ural-Altaic branches of languages. As the common point between these groups lies in Central Asia some scholars have recently proposed that the Dravidian peoples originally came from this region. ...
- The same linguistic speculation that led to the Aryan invasion theory has following the same logic required a "Dravidian invasion. ... The city-state of Elam in southwest Iran, east of Sumeria, which had a high civilization throughout the ancient period, shows an agglutinative structure like the Dravidian, as does possibly the Sumerian itself. This would place Dravidian type languages in Iran as well. ... (However, we have already noted that there is no evidence of such migrations, nor of any Dravidian references to the Sarasvati like those of the Vedas. ...
17. Dravidian
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- Dravidian Member of a group of non-Indo-European peoples of the Deccan region of India and northern Sri Lanka. The Dravidian language family is large, with about 20 languages spoken in southern India; the main ones are Tamil,which has a literary tradition 2,000 years old; Kanarese; Telugu; Malayalam; and Tulu.
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18. Definition of Dravidian_language - WordReference.com Dictionary
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- Dravidian, Dravidic, Dravidian_language.
- Category Tree:abstraction╚relation╚social_relation╚communication╚language; linguistic_communication╚natural_language; tongue╚Dravidian, Dravidic, Dravidian_language╚North_Dravidian╚Central_Dravidian╚South-Central_Dravidian╚South_Dravidian.
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19. Countrybookshop.co.uk - Dravidian Languages, The
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- Dravidian Languages, The.
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- Category: indic, east indo-european and dravidian languages .
- This book provides a linguistic overview of the Dravidian language family.
- Krishnamurti is a leading linguist in India and one of the world's renowned historical and comparative linguists, specialising in the Dravidian family of languages. ... His books include Telugu Verbal Bases: A Comparative and Descriptive Study (1961), Konda or Kubi, a Dravidian Language (1969), A Grammar of Modern Telugu (with J. ... Gwynn, 1985), Language, Education and Society (1998), and Comparative Dravidian Linguistics: Current Perspectives (2001).
- The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. ... In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. ... Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists.
20. Language School Explorer - Information about Dravidian_languages
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- Dravidian languages.
- The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, as wellas certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, andeastern and central India. Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 200 millionpeople, and they appear to be unrelated to languages of other known families. A few scholars include the Dravidian languages in alarger Elamo-Dravidian language family, whichincludes the ancient Elamite language of what is now southwesternIran; but this is not accepted by most of the Dravidianists.
- 1 History2 List of Dravidian languages.
- The origins of the Dravidian languages, as well as their subsequent development and the period of their differentiation, areunclear, and the situation is not helped by the extremely unsatisfactory state of comparative linguistic research into the Dravidian languages. There are striking similaritiesbetween the Dravidian and Uralic and Altaic language groups, which suggest prolonged contact between thelanguage families at some stage although a common origin appears unlikely. ...
- Legends common to many Dravidian-speaking groups speak of their origin in a vast, now-sunken continent far to the south. Manylinguists, however, tend to favour the theory that speakers of Dravidian languages spread southwards and eastwards through theIndian subcontinent, based on the fact that the southernDravidian languages show some signs of contact with linguistic groups which the northern Dravidian languages do not. Proto-Dravidian is thought havedifferentiated into Proto-North Dravidian, Proto-Central Dravidian and Proto-South Dravidian around 1500 BC, although somelinguists have argued that the degree of differentiation between the sub-families points to an earlier split.
- The existence of the Dravidian language family was first suggested in 1816 by Alexander D. ... However, it was not until 1856 that Robert Caldwell published his Comparative grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian family oflanguages, which considerably expanded the Dravidian umbrella and established it as one of the major language groups of theworld. Caldwell coined the term "Dravidian" from the Sanskrit drāvida,which was used in a 7th century text to refer to the languages of the south of India. The publication of the Dravidian etymological dictionary by T. ...
- List of Dravidian languages.
- Brahui (the only Dravidian language not spoken in India; it is spoken inBaluchistan in Pakistan).
21. Definition of North Dravidian
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- Dictionary Definition of North Dravidian .
- The noun "North Dravidian" has 1 senses.
- North Dravidian -- a Dravidian language spoken primarily in eastern India .
22. Dravidian language - definition of Dravidian language by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
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- Dravidian language.
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- Dravidian language - a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri LankaDravidic, Dravidiannatural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e. ... a computer languageSouth Dravidian - a Dravidian language spoken primarily in southern IndiaSouth-Central Dravidian - a Dravidian language spoken primarily in south central IndiaCentral Dravidian - a Dravidian language spoken primarily in central IndiaNorth Dravidian - a Dravidian language spoken primarily in eastern India.
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23. Yamada Language Center: Dravidian News
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24. Meetup.com Dravidian › Dravidian Meetup Groups Home
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- The São Paulo Dravidian Meetup Group.
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