Dravidian

  1. Proper noun.  A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
  2. Proper noun.  Any of the languages of these aboriginal peoples; Dravidic.
  3. Noun.  A member of any of several aboriginal peoples of India and Sri Lanka thought to have spread in India before and after Aryan migration.

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