DRAVIDIC

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Dravidian; Dravidian language; Dravidic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Dravidic" 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 "Dravidic"):

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)