Dra·vid·i·an /drəˈvɪdiən/
(a.)德拉威族人的德拉威人,德拉威語
Dra·vid·i·an prop. a. Ethnol. Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important; Telegu, Malayalam, and Kannada are included. These languages are distinct from the Indo-European family of languages.
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Dravidian
n 1: a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed
south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)
2: a large family of languages spoken in south and central
India and Sri Lanka [syn: Dravidic, Dravidian language]