Dravidian languages - Wikipedia
Dravidian is first attested in the 2nd century BCE, as inscriptions in Tamil-Brahmi script on cave walls in the Madurai and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu. [4][a] The Dravidian languages with the most speakers are (in descending order of number of speakers) Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, all of which have long literary traditions.
Dravidian peoples - Wikipedia
Six languages are currently recognized by India as Classical languages and four of them are Dravidian languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. The most commonly spoken Dravidian languages are Telugu (తెలుగు), Tamil (தமிழ்), Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), Malayalam (മലയാളം), Brahui (براہوئی), Tulu ...
Tamil language | Origin, History, & Facts | Britannica
2024年9月1日 · Tamil language, member of the Dravidian language family, spoken primarily in India. It is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry (Pondicherry). It is also an official language in Sri Lanka and Singapore and has significant numbers of speakers in Malaysia, Mauritius, Fiji, and South Africa.
Dravidian languages | History, Grammar, Map, & Facts | Britannica
2024年9月26日 · The Dravidian languages are divided into South, South-Central, Central, and North groups; these groups are further organized into 24 subgroups. The four major literary languages—Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada—are recognized by the constitution of India.
Tamil people - New World Encyclopedia
Tamil people, a Dravidian people from the Indian subcontinent, have a recorded history going back more than two millennia. The oldest Tamil communities live in southern India and north-eastern Sri Lanka.
திராவிடர் - தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா
திராவிடம் என்பது தமிழைக் குறிக்கும் சொல்லாக பழங்காலத்திலிருந்தே பயன்படுத்தப்பட்டு வருகிறது. ஆழ்வார்கள் பாடிய பாசுரங்கள் 'திராவிட வேதம்' ('தமிழ் வேதம்') என்று அழைக்கப்படுகின்றன. [1] . திருவாய்மொழியை 'திராவிட வேத சாகரம்' ('தமிழ் …
Ancestral Dravidian languages in Indus Civilization: ultraconserved ...
2021年8月3日 · Dravidian-group languages, despite being spoken mostly in southern India (e.g., Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam), also have scattered representations in India’s North-Western (Brahui), North...
Taking Periyarism Seriously: The Dravidian Identity as a Universality
2024年8月8日 · This paper traces the ways in which the precolonial and colonial sense of being Tamil enabled Periyar’s Dravidianism, which was not a racial or ethnolinguistic chauvinism but a conditional particularism, instrumentalising an identity in order to secure a rationalist and egalitarian future by reconnecting with an idealised Tamil past.
Social Progress and the Dravidian “Race” in Tamil Social Thought
2024年1月4日 · This conception of a Dravidian race, rooted in European racial and philological scholarship on the peoples of South India, became an important symbol of Tamil cultural, religious, and social autonomy in colonial and post-colonial Tamil …
Who are the Dravidians? Where did they come from? - Medium
2020年7月27日 · 1. Tamil people celebrating the local festival, Pongal (Source: newindianexpress.com) Dravidians are an ethno-linguistic people group predominantly found in southern India and Sri Lanka, but also...