S09: Languages
 
 

9. Classification of languages - F) The Dravidian family

 

 

  • Mainly spoken in the southern part of South Asia

  • Native to the whole Indian subcontinent by the time the Indo-European languages spread into the Indus and Ganges valleys in the late 3rd Millennium B.C.

  • Most important:
    - Telugu (75 M in Andhra Pradesh, India)
    - Tamil (70 M in S.E. India and N. Sri Lanka)
    - Kannada (45 M in Karnataka, India)
    - Malayalam (35 M in Kerala, India)



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