Author: Thomas Burrow
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Category : Dravidian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Thomas Burrow
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Dravidian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Thomas Burrow
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press [1961]
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Category : Dravidian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: Simo Parpola
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789521094941
Category : Sumerian language
Languages : en
Pages : 862

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Author: P. S. Subrahmanyam
Publisher:
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Category : Dravidian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139435337
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 575

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The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. He describes its history and writing systems, discusses its structure and typology, and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists.

Author: Sanford B. Steever
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136911642
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 455

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The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with over 175 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka as well as having communities in Malaysia, North America and the UK. Four of the languages, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu are official national languages and the Dravidian family has had a rich literary and cultural influence. This authoritative reference source provides unique descriptions of 12 of these languages, covering their historical development alongside discussions of their specialised linguistic structures and features. Each chapter combines modern linguistic theory with traditional historical linguistics and a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. Two further chapters provide general information about the language family - the introduction, which covers the history, cultural implications and linguistic background, and a separate article on Dravidian writing systems. This volume includes languages from all 4 of the Dravidian family's subgroupings: South Dravidian e.g. Tamil, Kannada; South Central Dravidian e.g. Telugu, Konda; Central Dravidian e.g. Kolami; North Dravidian e.g. Brahui, Malto. Written by a team of expert contributors, many of whom are based in Asia, each language chapter offers a detailed analysis of phonology, morphology, syntax and followed by a list of the most relevant further reading to aid the independent scholar. The Dravidian Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of comparative literature, South Asian studies and Oriental studies.

Author: Devaneya Pavanar
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781976310638
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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'Tamil' is one of those words whose origin and root-meaning are wrapped up in mystery. All that we can say at present without any fear of contradiction is, that it is a pure Tamil word being current as the only name of the language of the Tamils, from the days that preceded the First Tamil Academy established at Thenmadurai on the river pahruli in the submerged continent. After some of the Vedic Aryans migrated to the South, Tamil got the descriptive name 'Tenmoli' lit. 'the southern language', in contradistinction to the Vedic language or Sanskrit which was called 'Vadamoli', lit. 'the northern language'. The word 'Tamil' or 'Tamilan' successively changed into 'Dramila', 'Dramila', 'Dramida' and 'Dravida' in North India and at first denoted only the Tamil language, as all the other Dravidian dialects separated themselves from Tamil or came into prominence one by one only after the dawn of the Christian era. That is why Sanskrit and Tamil came to be known as Vadamoi and Tenmoli respectively. This distinction could have arisen only when there were two languages standing side by side, one in the North and the other in the South, both coming in contact with each other. The Buddhist Tamil Academy which flourished in the 5th century at Madurai went by the name of 'Travida Sangam'.

Author: Walter William Skeat
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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Author: Parameswari Krishnamurthy
Publisher: KY Publications
ISBN: 9387769372
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The book is in print and one can claim with satisfaction and a little bit of pride that the venture was worthwhile. The readers are now invited to share their rewarding and enriching experience. We hope that this book meets the needs of the readers and continue to provide support to scholars in the field of Linguistics and Translation Studies over the coming years