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Dravidian

noun

A member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them).

A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka. Synonyms: Dravidian language, Dravidic.

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Central Dravidian

North Dravidian

South Dravidian

South-Central Dravidian

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"Dravidian" Quotes from Famous Books

... men, furtive, shy, full of untold superstitions. The races whom we call natives of the country found the Bhil in possession of the land when they first broke into that part of the world thousands of years ago. The books call them Pre-Aryan, Aboriginal, Dravidian, and so forth; and, in other words, that is what the Bhils call themselves. When a Rajput chief whose bards can sing his pedigree backwards for twelve hundred years is set on the throne, his investiture is not complete till he has been marked on the ...

— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling

... Comorin. Then, all India, including Ceylon, was Hinduized, though in differing degrees; the purest Aryan civilization being in the north, the less pure in the Ganges Valley and south and east, while the least Aryan and more Dravidian was in Bengal, Orissa, and India ...

— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis

... Diane Chasseresse, took a charming touch of lightness from the aluminium nails which decorated the "uppers" with a quaint and original Dravidian cornice. ...

— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne

Words linked to "Dravidian" : Savara, natural language, Gond, Kui, Indian, Tamil, Gadaba, Canarese, Badaga, Toda, Kanarese, tongue, Kotar, Kota, Tulu, Malto, Kolam, Telugu