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DRAVIDIC

Dictionary entry overview: What does Dravidic mean?

• DRAVIDIC (noun)
The noun DRAVIDIC has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: DRAVIDIC used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DRAVIDIC (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Dravidian language; Dravidic; Dravidian

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)

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