SOUTH DRAVIDIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South Dravidian mean? 

• SOUTH DRAVIDIAN (noun)
  The noun SOUTH DRAVIDIAN has 1 sense:

1. a Dravidian language spoken primarily in southern India

  Familiarity information: SOUTH DRAVIDIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH DRAVIDIAN (noun)

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Meaning:

A Dravidian language spoken primarily in southern India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("South Dravidian" is a kind of...):

Dravidian; Dravidian language; Dravidic (a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "South Dravidian"):

Irula (a Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India)

Kota; Kotar (a Dravidian language spoken by the Kota)

Toda (the Dravidian language spoken by the Toda in southern India)

Kanarese; Kannada (a Dravidian language spoken in southern India)

Tulu (a Dravidian language spoken by the Tulu)

Malayalam (a Dravidian language (closely related to Tamil) that is spoken in southwestern India)

Tamil (the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka)