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English Dictionary: Dravidian by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Dravidian
n
  1. a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)
  2. a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka
    Synonym(s): Dravidian, Dravidic, Dravidian language
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dravidian \Dra*vid"i*an\, a. [From Skr. Dr[be]vi[dsdot]a, the
      name of the southern portion of the peninsula of India.]
      (Ethnol.)
      Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
  
      {Dravidian languages}, a group of languages of Southern
            India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives,
            before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these
            languages, the Tamil is the most important.
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