Dravidian race, a member of any of the peoples that speak one of the Dravidian languages.
A political movement encompassing a number of different parties that appeal to speakers of the Tamil language
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The various Dravidianlanguages, with the number of speakers returned at the census of 1901, are as follows: Of these Tamil and Malayalam can be considered as two dialects of one and the same language, which is, in its turn, closely related to Kanarese.
In the north-eastern part of the Dravidian territory, to the east of Chanda and Bhandara, the usual state of affairs is that Dravidian dialects are spoken in the hills while Aryan forms of speech prevail in the plains.
The oldest known specimen of a Dravidianlanguage occurs in a Greek play which is preserved in a papyrus of the 2nd century A.D. The exact period to which the indigenous literature can be traced back, on the other hand, has not been fixed with certainty.
Dravidianlanguages, family of about 23 languages that appears to be unrelated to any other known language family.
It is thought that the Dravidian tongues are derived from a language spoken in India prior to the invasion of the Aryans c.1500 BC Dravidianlanguages are noted for retroflex and liquid sound types.
The Dravidianlanguages have their own alphabets, which go back to a common source that is related to the Devanagari alphabet used for Sanskrit.
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