Definition of North Dravidian

1. Noun. A Dravidian language spoken primarily in eastern India.

Generic synonyms: Dravidian, Dravidian Language, Dravidic
Specialized synonyms: Kurux, Malto, Brahui

Lexicographical Neighbors of North Dravidian

North Britain
North Briton
North Britons
North Cackalack
North Cackalacky
North Carolina
North Carolinian
North Carolinians
North Cascades National Park
North Caucasus
North Channel
North Conway
North Dakota
North Dakotan
North Dakotans
North Dravidian (current term)
North East England
North East Land
North Equatorial Current
North Finnish
North Frigid Zone
North Frisian
North Frisian Islands
North Germanic
North Germanic language
North Holland
North Holland Blue
North India
North Indian
North Indians

Literary usage of North Dravidian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science of Language: Linguistics, Philology, Etymology by Abel Hovelacque (1877)
"... or Kannada, occupies the north Dravidian district, extending over the plateau of Mysore and the western portion of the Nizam's Dominions. ..."

2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"... and other rude dialects of the North Dravidian family, exhibit no analogy to any of the Dravidian numerals above four. In Telugu compounds, the word for ..."

3. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"... and other rude dialects of the North Dravidian family, exhibit no analogy to any of the Dravidian numerals above four. In Telugu compounds, the word for ..."

4. An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the by Abraham Fornander, John F. G. Stokes (1878)
"... (G-alela) and Tidore moi and remoi, "one," strongly point to the North Dravidian (kol) formation of moi, "one." Whether the Polynesian mua, ..."

5. Elements of South-Indian Palæography from the Fourth to the Seventeenth by Arthur Coke Burnell (1878)
"What I have termed the transitional period, or from 1000-1300 AD, marks the rise and most flourishing period of the North Dravidian literatures. ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... and " Human Relics in the Drift of Ohio," by Edward W. Claypole. The following reports were read and discussed : "On the North Dravidian and ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"Report on the North Dravidian and Ko- larian Races of Central India. 1 No further progress ' was reported in the transcribing and translating of Mr. Rayn- ..."

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