https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Dravidian_languages 2026-07-30T22:31:53Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.45.4 https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Dravidian_languages&diff=309347&oldid=prev 2021-08-07T06:33:25Z

<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox language family<br /> |name = Dravidian<br /> |map = Dravidian subgroups.png<br /> |mapcaption = Places where Dravidian languages are spoken<br /> |region = [[South Asia]], mostly [[South India]]<br /> |familycolor = Dravidian<br /> |family = One of the world&#039;s major language families<br /> |protoname = [[Proto-Dravidian language|Proto-Dravidian]]<br /> |child1 = Central<br /> |child2 = Eastern<br /> |child3 = Southern<br /> |iso2 = dra<br /> |iso5 = dra<br /> |sil = 1282-16<br /> }}<br /> <br /> The &#039;&#039;&#039;Dravidian languages&#039;&#039;&#039; are a [[language family]] spoken by [[Dravidian peoples]]. The languages are mainly spoken in [[South India]], western [[Bangladesh]], northern [[Sri Lanka]] and southern [[Pakistan]]. There are about 26 [[language]]s in this family. A total of about 215 million people speak Dravidian languages.<br /> <br /> Dravidian languages were probably spoken over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent in the past. There are several ethnic groups in India known as &quot;Scheduled Tribes&quot; who still speak their own Dravidian languages. [[Brahui language|Brahui]], with 2,200,000 speakers, is a Dravidian language spoken in the Balochistan region of [[Pakistan]] and [[Afghanistan]]. Dhangar, which is a dialect of Kurukh, is spoken in parts of Nepal and Bhutan.<br /> <br /> == Main Dravidian languages ==<br /> * [[Telugu language]] 85,000,000 speakers<br /> * [[Tamil language]] 75,000,000 speakers<br /> * [[Kannada language]] 49,000,000 speakers<br /> * [[Malayalam language]] 38,000,000 speakers<br /> <br /> There are about 30 more Dravidian languages spoken, with far fewer speakers.<br /> examples of Dravidian languages with fewer speakers include [[Tulu language]] and the [[Brahui language]] (the only Dravidian language not spoken in India)<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> <br /> * [[Languages of South Asia]]<br /> {{Asia-stub}}<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Dravidian languages| ]]</div>

ImportMaster