Dravidian languages

The Dravidian languages are a language family spoken by the Dravidian peoples. The languages are mainly spoken in South India, western Bangladesh, southern Sri Lanka and southern Pakistan. There are about 36 languages in this family. A total of about 215 million people speak the Dravidian languages.

Dravidian languages probably used to be spoken over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent. The are several ethnic groups in India, known as "Scheduled Tribes", that still speak their own Dravidian languages. Brahui, with 2,200,000 speakers, is a Dravidian language that is spoken in the Balochistan region of Pakistan. Kurukh language is spoken in parts of Nepal, Bhutan and Laos. The main Dravidian languages are below:
 Telugu: 85,000,000 speakers
 Tamil: 75,000,000 speakers
 Kannada: 49,000,000 speakers
 Malayalam: 38,000,000 speakers
 Brahui: 2,600,000 speakers

 Related pages 
 Languages of South Asia


Category:Language families of Pakistan
Category:Languages of Asia