A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages - meaning and definition. What is A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages
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A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages         
A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages is a book on comparative linguistics written by Robert Caldwell in 1856, a Christian missionary, who later became the assistant Bishop of Tirunelveli. In this book, Caldwell proposed that there are Dravidian words in the Hebrew of the Old Testament, the archaic Greek language, and the places named by Ptolemy.
Languages of South Asia         
  • The names of each state in the script of the dominant language of that state of India, part of Pakistan, and the whole of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
LANGUAGES OF A GEOGRAPHIC REGION
Languages of Indian subcontinent; South Asian languages; Languages of the Indian subcontinent; Indo languages
South Asia is home to several hundred languages, spanning the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives and Sri Lanka. It is home to the third most spoken language in the world, Hindi–Urdu; and the sixth most spoken language, Bengali.
Elamo-Dravidian languages         
HYPOTHESISED LANGUAGE FAMILY THAT LINKS THE DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGES OF INDIA
Elamo-Dravidian; Elamo-Dravidian language family; Zagrosian languages; Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis
The Elamo-Dravidian language family is a hypothesised language family that links the Dravidian languages of Pakistan, and Southern India to the extinct Elamite language of ancient Elam (present-day southwestern Iran). Linguist David McAlpin has been a chief proponent of the Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis.