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dravidian

/dɹəˈvɪdɪən/

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What does dravidian mean?

noun

  1. A member of any of several aboriginal peoples of India and Sri Lanka thought to have spread in India before Aryan migration.

adjective

  1. Of or relating to the Dravidian people or language.

proper noun

  1. A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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proper noun

  1. Any of the languages of these aboriginal peoples; Dravidic.
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It is found amongst nearly all the native tribes of America; the peoples of Malaysia, Melanesia, Australia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, the Dravidian tribes of India; in Africa it is found in the eastern Sahara, the Soudan, the east and west coast, and in the centre of the continent, but not to the exclusion, altogether, of father-right, while in the north the intrusion of Europeans and the followers of Islam has tended to suppress it.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966