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Which is the best Dravidian language?
The most widely-spoken language in the family is Telugu. With around 82 million speakers, it’s the third most spoken language in India after Hindi and Bengali. The next most spoken is Tamil, with approximately 75 million speakers.
What is the youngest Dravidian language?
Malayalam, the state language of Kerala, the smallest and the youngest of the Dravidian family.
How do Dravidian languages sound?
The sound /ẓ/ is peculiar to the Dravidian languages. It is used in some modern Tamil dialects, where it sounds somewhat like the American Midwestern r in girl. The alveolar and retroflex sounds are produced with the tip or apex of the tongue; they are also called apical sounds.
Which is the mother of Dravidian languages?
In this regard, Sanskrit is indeed the mother of Dravidian languages, as it has been the source of their vast and expanding vocabularies for 3000 years.
Are Dravidian languages Indo Aryan?
Dravidian languages are mostly spoken in the south of the Indian subcontinent, while Indo-Aryan languages are concentrated in the north. It is thought that Dravidian languages were native to the Indian subcontinent and were originally spread across all of India.
Which Indian language is similar to Japanese?
All the Dravidian languages are typologically some what similar to Japanese. Though, some have claimed that Dravidian languages (Tamil, Telugu etc.) are genetically related to Japanese.
Why is brahui a Dravidian language?
The children and the employees in question were both Brahui speakers. Brahui is a Dravidian language spoken by close to 2 million mostly in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. The language doesn’t have any connections with those spoken around it, but is connected to the Dravidian tongues of distant southern India.
What is difference between Aryan and Dravidian?
People living in North India have been referred to as Aryans, and those belonging to south India have been labeled as Dravidians for the last many centuries. Indians were made to believe that north Indians are descendants of Aryans while south Indians are the descendants of Dravidians.