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Of or pertaining to the Dravida.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
  2. n. a member of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of India
  3. n. a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka, as well as overseas in Malaysia and Singapore
  4. 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.
  5. Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a groupof languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms ofthe natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Ofthese languages, the Tamil is the most important.
  6. n. a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them) n. a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka