Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Dravidian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun one of the languages native to southern India; a Dravidian language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun the
Dravidian family oflanguages
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka
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Examples
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It has been maintained that not all men can have perished in the Flood for the following reasons: Tribes which certainly sprang from Noe were preceded in their earliest settlements by other tribes whose origin is unknown to us: the Dravidic tribes preceded the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Polynesian stock; C. Nigritian group of races: (1) Negro; (2) dark-coloured Indian (Dravidic races); (3) Indonesian and oceanic
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The homelands of the Mongoloid race in Asia, the Congoid race in Africa, the Dravidic race in India and other non-European races are not threatened by any movement toward multiracialism.
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008
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