Dravidian languages

E14711

language family linguistic group

Dravidian languages are a family of languages primarily spoken in South India and parts of Sri Lanka, including major languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Dravidian languages canonical	60
Dravidian	30
Dravidian language family	22
Dravidian (in some formulations)	1
Dravidian linguistic area	1
Telugu–Kui branch	1

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	language family ⓘ linguistic group ⓘ
associatedEthnolinguisticGroup	Dravidian peoples ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
estimatedSpeakers	over 220 million speakers ⓘ
hasISOFamilyCode	dra ⓘ
historicalStatus	one of the world’s major language families ⓘ
influencedLanguageFamily	Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
languageFamilySize	about 80 languages ⓘ
majorCountry	India ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ
majorLanguage	Brahui people ⓘ surface form: Brahui Gondi ⓘ Kannada ⓘ Kurukh ⓘ Malayalam ⓘ Tamil ⓘ Telugu ⓘ Tulu ⓘ
morphologicalFeature	SOV basic word order ⓘ extensive verb conjugation ⓘ postpositions rather than prepositions ⓘ rich case system ⓘ
oldestAttestedLanguage	Tamil ⓘ
oldestInscriptionsDate	at least 3rd century BCE ⓘ
phonologicalFeature	contrastive length in vowels ⓘ geminate consonants ⓘ retroflex consonants ⓘ
primaryRegion	South India ⓘ
region	Afghanistan ⓘ People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ surface form: Bangladesh Central India ⓘ eastern India ⓘ surface form: Eastern India Iran ⓘ Maldives ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ Western India ⓘ
subfamily	Central Dravidian languages ⓘ North Dravidian languages ⓘ Southern Dravidian ⓘ surface form: South Dravidian languages South-Central Dravidian ⓘ surface form: South-Central Dravidian languages
typology	agglutinative language family ⓘ
writingSystem	Devanagari script ⓘ Grantha script ⓘ Kannada script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ Malayalam script ⓘ Perso-Arabic script ⓘ Tamil script ⓘ Telugu script ⓘ Vatteluttu script ⓘ

Referenced by (115)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Indian English → influencedBy → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Asia → containsMajorLanguageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Telugu → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Telugu → belongsToBranch → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Telugu–Kui branch

South Asia → hasMajorLanguageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Tamil → family → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian language family

Kannada → family → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Malayalam → family → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Gondi → family → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Gondi → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

South India → majorLanguageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Brahui people → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

South-Central Dravidian → partOf → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian language family

South-Central Dravidian → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Rayalaseema Telugu → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Indians → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Southern Dravidian → partOf → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian language family

Southern Dravidian → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Tamil people → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Tamil cinema → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Jaffna Tamil → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Yanam → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Proto-Dravidian → partOf → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian language family

Proto-Dravidian → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Kundagannada → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Kurukh → family → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

North Dravidian languages → partOf → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian language family

North Dravidian languages → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Tulu → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Dravidian peoples → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Dravidian peoples → relatedConcept → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Tamil script → writingSystemFor → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Tamil script → associatedWithLanguageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Gonds → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

gon → hasLanguageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

gon → hasLanguageFamilyBranch → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Adilabad Gondi → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Koya language → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Kui language → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian language family

Southern Gondi → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Dorla Gondi → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Chenchu language → family → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Dravidian studies → focusesOn → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Languages of India → majorLanguageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Gondi language → family → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Gondi language → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dravidian

Telu → associatedLanguageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Kodava language → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Telugu–Kannada script family → linguisticUsage → Dravidian languages ⓘ

Kodava → languageFamily → Dravidian languages ⓘ