Dravidian
From Freepedia
Dravidian may refer to:
- A group of people who came through Arabia to settle on the Asian mainland at the Straight of Hormuz and on the Indus river in what is now Afghanistan. These people were driven southward into India. Some scholars attribute this to a later 'Aryan invasion.'
- Dravidian languages, including the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada languages spoken especially in southern India and northern Sri Lanka.
- Southern Dravidian languages, a major grouping of the languages
- Dravidian race, a member of any of the peoples that speak one of the Dravidian languages , especially a member of one of the pre-Indo-European peoples of India
- A political movement encompassing a number of different parties that appeal to speakers of the Tamil language



