单词 | Dravidian |
释义 | Dravidian/drəˈvɪdɪən /adjective Relating to or denoting a family of languages spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, or the peoples who speak them.It also has borrowed words from Dravidian languages of southern India, mostly Tamil....
noun 1 [mass noun] The Dravidian family of languages.One was Dravidian, a language family now centered on southern India....
2A member of any of the peoples speaking a Dravidian language.By language we are Tamils, by race Dravidians and by nationality Indians....
Dravidian languages were once spoken throughout the Indian subcontinent, but were restricted to the south following the arrival of speakers of Indic languages circa 1000 bc. Those still used, by over 160 million people, include Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu. OriginFrom Sanskrit drāviḍa 'relating to the Tamils' (from Dravida 'Tamil') + -ian. Rhymes |
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