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A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka
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dravidian
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dravidian \Dra*vid"i*an\, prop. a. [From Skr. Dr[=a]vi[dsdot]a, the name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India.] (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages , a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been ...
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, "pertaining to the race in southern India or the languages spoken by them," from Sanskrit Dravidah , name of a region in southern India, + -ian .
Usage examples of dravidian.
The highways of the Achaemenids -- yes, and which before them had trembled to the tramplings of the myriads of the godlike Dravidian conquerors.
Cheroos and Kharwars, Parheyas, Kisans, Bhuikers, Boyars, Nagbansis, Kaurs, Mars, Bhunyiars, Bendkars form another great group apart from the Kolarians and Dravidians, and approximating more to the Indian variety of the Japetic class.
Caraka had the snubbed nose and broad lips of the original Indian stock, sometimes known as Nagas, sometimes known as Dravidians.
Medes, the Indo-Aryans have managed for close to forty generations to keep themselves unabsorbed by the Nagas or Dravidians or Harappas.
The highways of the Achaemenids--yes, and which before them had tre mbled to the tra mplings of the myriads of the godlike Dravidian conquerors.
The Raos pointed out that the oral stories and traditions that villagers in south India know are based on written epics that have been handed down in detail in Dravidian languages and scripts thousands of years old.
We would like to exchange our Dravidians, Arabs, any nonblacks, for your blacks.
The highways of the Achaemenids--yes, and which before them had trembled to the tramplings of the myriads of the godlike Dravidian conquerors.