Dravidian

Dravidian may refer to the following about southern South Asia:Dravidian languages, a language family comprising about 21 languages including the four literary languages Tamil language, Telugu language, Kannada language and Malayalam languages spoken especially in Southern India and Northeastern Sri LankaDravidian people, a member of any of the peoples that speak one of the Dravidian languagesDravidian architecture, a style of Temple constructionThe Self-respect movement, sometimes called the Dravidian movement or the Periyar movement, a Tamil Nadu political movement that appeals to speakers of the Tamil languageDravidian martial arts - a style of martial artsDravida, a Sanskrit term denoting a family of related ethnicities and languages in the Southern and Central parts of India, and Northeast of Sri Lanka.Rahul Dravid, former Indian cricket captain and middle order batsman
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DRAVIDA. LINGUA DRAVIDICA. DRAVIDICO

dravidian
\dra*vid"i*an\ (?), a. [from skr. drāvi&dsdot;a, the name of the southern portion of the peninsula of india.] (ethnol.) of or pertaining to the dravida.
dravidian
languages, a group of languages of southern india, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking sanskrit. of these languages, the tamil is the most important.

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 dravidian languages 

(a.)
Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
  

n. large family of languages spoken in Sri Lanka and in south and central India

adj. of or pertaining to the Dravidian languages; of or pertaining to the Dravidian people

n. member of any of the people that speak Dravidian languages