Bahasa-bahasa Dravidia

mengandungi sekurang-kurangnya 73 buah bahasa yang dituturkan di Selatan India dan timur laut Sri Lanka, serta sesetangah kawasan di Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, timur India, dan tangah India, serta bahagian di Afghanistan dan Iran, dan negara-negara seperti UK, AS, Kanada, Malaysia, dan Singapura.

Nombor 

 This is the same as another word meaning "one" in another sense in Tamil and Malayalam - the distinction is as between Spanish "un" and "uno".
 This is still found in compound words, and has taken on a meaning of "double" in Tamil and Malayalam. For example, irupatu (20, literally meaning "double-ten") or "irai" ("double") or Iruvar (meaning two people).
 Kolami numbers 5-10 are borrowed from Telugu
 Words indicated (II) are borrowings from Indo-Iranian languages.

Lihat juga 
 Susumu Kuno
 Bahasa-bahasa rasmi India

Catatan

Rujukan 
 Caldwell, R., A comparative grammar of the Dravidian, or, South-Indian family of languages, London: Harrison, 1856.; Reprinted London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1913; rev. ed. by J.L. Wyatt and T. Ramakrishna Pillai, Madras, University of Madras, 1961, reprint Asian Educational Services, 1998. ISBN 81-206-0117-3
 Campbell, A.D., A grammar of the Teloogoo language, commonly termed the Gentoo, peculiar to the Hindoos inhabiting the northeastern provinces of the Indian peninsula, 3d ed. Madras, Printed at the Hindu Press, 1849.
 Krishnamurti, B., The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-77111-0
 Subrahmanyam, P.S., Dravidian Comparative Phonology, Annamalai University, 1983.
 Zvelebil, Kamil., Dravidian Linguistics: An Introduction", PILC (Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture), 1990
 Zvelebil, Kamil., Tamil Literature, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1975, ISBN 90-04-04190-7
 Kuiper, F.B.J., Aryans in the Rig Veda", Rodopi, 1991, ISBN 90-5183-307-5 (CIP)
 Witzel, Michael, Early Sources for South Asian Substrate Languages.Boston, "Mother Tongue", extra number 1999

Pautan luar 
 Dravidian Etymological Dictionary. The complete dravidian etymological dictionary in a searchable online form.
 Dravidian languages page in SIL Ethnologue.
 Dravidian from Etruscan  Paper claiming a relationship between Dravidian and Etruscan.
 Dravidian origin of the Guanches. A paper claiming a Dravidian origin for the language of the Guanches.
 Tamil and Japanese
 http://www.brahui.tk  A site by Shafique-Ur-Rehman, Its all about Brahui People live mostly in Balochistan, Pakistan.
 A subsection of the "Languages of the World" Site maintained by the National Virtual Translation Center in Washington DC.