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Dravidian languages

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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.

Aliases (3)

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 → 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 → Bangladesh → Central India → Eastern India → Iran → Maldives → Nepal → Pakistan → Sri Lanka → Western India →
subfamily	Central Dravidian languages → North Dravidian languages → South Dravidian languages → 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 (33)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Brahui people → Dravidian peoples → Gondi → Indians → Jaffna Tamil → Kundagannada → North Dravidian languages → Proto-Dravidian ("Dravidian") → Rayalaseema Telugu → South-Central Dravidian ("Dravidian") → Southern Dravidian ("Dravidian") → Tamil cinema → Tamil people → Telugu ("Dravidian") → Tulu ("Dravidian") → Yanam →	languageFamily
Gondi ("Dravidian") → Kannada → Kurukh ("Dravidian") → Malayalam → Tamil ("Dravidian language family") →	family
North Dravidian languages ("Dravidian language family") → Proto-Dravidian ("Dravidian language family") → South-Central Dravidian ("Dravidian language family") → Southern Dravidian ("Dravidian language family") →	partOf
Tamil script ("Dravidian") →	associatedWithLanguageFamily
Telugu ("Telugu–Kui branch") →	belongsToBranch
Asia →	containsMajorLanguageFamily
South Asia →	hasMajorLanguageFamily
Indian English →	influencedBy
South India →	majorLanguageFamily
Dravidian peoples →	relatedConcept
Tamil script →	writingSystemFor