Dravidian

Dravidian is the name of the ethnic group from which Tamils come.

Dravidian is the linguistic and racial name applied to some in southern India.

Francis, the head jailer, a fat Dravidian in a white drill suit and gold spectacles, waved his black hand.

Earlier classifications grouped Central and South-Central Dravidian in a single branch.

Dravidian was recognized in the mid-19th century by Robert Caldwell (1856), well before the publication of Schleicher's comparative reconstructions.

Thus, in Parpola's view, the urheimat of Dravidian would be in the Indus River Valley.

Kinship is based on a 'a Dravidian' type sib system, with bilateral cross-cousin marriage between people from hierarchically order patrilineal sibs.

One theory is that the Brahui are a relic population of Dravidians, surrounded by speakers of Indo-Iranian languages, remaining from a time when Dravidian was more widespread.

The linguistic evidence suggests that Proto-South Dravidian was spoken around the middle of the second millennium BC, and that proto-Tamil emerged around the 3rd century BC.

Malayalam is a daughter language of Tamil, which is a daughter language of Tamil Dravidian which is a daughter language of Proto-Dravidian.

The possibility that Japanese might be related to Dravidian was raised by Robert Caldwell (cf. Caldwell 1875:413) and more recently by Susumu Shiba, Akira Fujiwara, and Susumu Ōno (n.d., 2000).

In the weeks since the death of Mr. Ramachandran, his widow, Janaki Ramachandran, had sought to form a government in the Assembly with most members of her husband's political organization, known as the All-India Elder Brother Dravidian Progressive Party.

Perhaps in light of Chodaganga Deva's Chola Dynasty ancestry, the customs, ritual and architecture of the temple follows a style syncretised with the Dravidian of South India and points to tribal Dravidian origins of the deity.