DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dravidian language mean? 

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

1. a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGE (noun)

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Meaning:

A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Dravidian; Dravidian language; Dravidic

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

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

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

South Dravidian (a Dravidian language spoken primarily in southern India)

South-Central Dravidian (a Dravidian language spoken primarily in south central India)

Central Dravidian (a Dravidian language spoken primarily in central India)

North Dravidian (a Dravidian language spoken primarily in eastern India)