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Dravidian

noun
1.
A member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them).
2.
A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka.  Synonyms: Dravidian language, Dravidic.



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Dravidian language
Central Dravidian
North Dravidian
South Dravidian
South-Central Dravidian


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"Dravidian" Quotes from Famous Books



... character of original Hindu art. The great stone-paved court once contained an imposing group of twenty pyramidal shrines, but only three remain in the original contour of the so-called "pagoda style," peculiar to the Dravidian temples of Southern India, from whence Java derived her special form of faith. The ruins on the opposite side of the grey quadrangle are mere cone-shaped piles of rubbish, dust, and broken stone, but the tapering pyramids, with their graceful galleries ...
— Through the Malay Archipelago • Emily Richings


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