Question: What is the Dravidian language whose location 's original name was Mahishapura , derived from a demon named Mahishasura ?

text: Dravidian languages
Distribution -- South Dravidian

The Dravidian languages are a language family spoken by more than 215 million people, mainly in southern India and northern Sri Lanka, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia. Since the colonial era, there have been small but significant immigrant communities outside South Asia in countries such as Mauritius, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Britain, Australia, and the United States. The Dravidian languages are first attested in the 2nd century BCE as Tamil-Brahmi script inscribed on the cave walls in the Madurai and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu. [a] The Dravidian languages with the most speakers are (in descending order of number of speakers) Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, all of which have long literary traditions. Smaller literary languages are Tulu and Kodava. There are also small groups of Dravidian-speaking scheduled tribes, who live outside Dravidian-speaking areas, such as the Kurukh in Eastern India and Gondi in Central India. Only two Dravidian languages are spoken exclusively outside the post-1947 state of India: Brahui in the Balochistan region of Pakistan and Afghanistan; and Dhangar, a dialect of Kurukh, in parts of Nepal and Bhutan. [better source needed] Dravidian place names along the Arabian Sea coasts and Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Indo-Aryan languages, namely Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and Sindhi, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent. Though some scholars have argued that the Dravidian languages may have been brought to India by migrations from the Iranian plateau in the fourth or third millennium BCE or even earlier, the Dravidian languages cannot easily be connected to any other language family and they could well be indigenous to India. [b]
Language Number of speakers Location
Tamil 75,000,000 Tamil Nadu , Puducherry ( including Karaikkal ) , parts of Andhra Pradesh ( Chittoor district ) , Karnataka ( Bangalore , Kolar ) , Kerala ( Palakkad and Idukki districts ) , Andaman and Nicobar , Sri Lanka , Singapore , Malaysia , Mauritius , Myanmar , Canada , United States , UK , UAE , Saudi Arabia , Australia , Reunion Island
Kannada 44,000,000 Karnataka , Kerala ( Kasaragod district ) and Maharashtra ( Solapur , Sangli ) , Tamil Nadu ( Salem , Ooty , Coimbatore , Krishnagiri , Chennai ) , Andhra Pradesh ( Ananthpur , Kurnool ) , Telangana ( Hyderabad Medak and Mehaboobnagar ) , United States , Australia , Germany UK UAE Bahrain
Malayalam 37,000,000 Kerala , Lakshadweep , Mahe district of Puducherry , Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu districts of Karnataka , Coimbatore , The Nilgiris and Kanyakumari districts of Tamil Nadu , UAE , United States , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , Oman , UK , Qatar , Bahrain , Australia , Canada , Malaysia , Singapore
Tulu 1,850,000 Karnataka ( Dakshina Kannada , Udupi districts ) and Kerala ( Kasaragod district ) , Across Maharashtra especially in cities like Mumbai , Thane and Gulf Countries ( UAE , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Bahrain )
Beary 1,500,000 Karnataka ( Dakshina Kannada , Udupi districts ) and Kerala ( Kasaragod district )
Irula 200,000 Tamil Nadu ( Nilgiris district ) , Karnataka ( Mysore district )
Kurumba 180,000 Tamil Nadu ( Nilgiris district )
Badaga 133,000 Karnataka ( Mysore district ) , Tamil Nadu ( Nilgiris district )
Kodava 114,000 Karnataka ( Kodagu district )
Jeseri 65,000 Lakshadweep
Yerukala 58,000 Karnataka , Kerala , Maharashtra , Andhra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu , Telangana
Betta Kurumba 32,000 Karnataka ( Chamarajanagar district , Kodagu district , Mysore district ) , Kerala ( Wayanad district ) , Tamil Nadu ( Nilgiri District )
Kurichiya 29,000 Kerala ( Kannur district , Kozhikode district , Wayanad district )
Ravula 27,000 Karnataka ( Kodagu district ) , Kerala ( Kannur district , Wayanad district )
Mullu Kurumba 26,000 Kerala ( Wayanad district ) , Tamil Nadu ( The Nilgiris District )
Sholaga 24,000 Tamil Nadu , Karnataka ( Mysore district )
Kaikadi 26,000 Madhya Pradesh ( Betul district ) , Maharashtra ( Amravati district )
Paniya 22,000 Karnataka ( Kodagu district ) , Kerala , Tamil Nadu
Kanikkaran 19,000 Kerala , Tamil Nadu ( Kanyakumari district , Tirunelveli district )
Malankuravan 18,600 Tamil Nadu ( Kanyakumari district ) , Kerala ( Kollam district , Kottayam district , Thiruvananthapuram district )