Associations to the word «Dravidian»

Wiktionary

DRAVIDIAN, proper noun. A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
DRAVIDIAN, proper noun. Any of the languages of these aboriginal peoples; Dravidic.
DRAVIDIAN, noun. A member of any of several aboriginal peoples of India and Sri Lanka thought to have spread in India before Aryan migration.

Dictionary definition

DRAVIDIAN, noun. A member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them).
DRAVIDIAN, noun. A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka.

Wise words

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