Similar words: gravid, avidity, primigravida, moravian, obsidian, meridian, quotidian, prime meridian. Meaning: n. 1. a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them) 2. a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka.
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1, The Dravidian model isn't just an unapplicable theory...But first we have to know what kind of writing system is the Indus script.
2, These seventh and eighth century Dravidian relics with Buddhist elements are temples to the Hindu gods Vishnu and Shiva.
3, South Indian speakers of Dravidian languages considered that a cultural imposition from the north.
4, Ethnic Composition: a mixture of Sinhalese, Dravidian, Arab and Black.
5, Moreover, the presence of Dravidian speakers throughout the whole subcontinent at any time in history is not attested.
6, He was an Indian, a black Dravidian coolie, almost naked, and he could not have been dead many minutes.
7, Dravidian language spoken by the Gond people in S central India.
8, There is evidence, which suggests that the Dravidian peoples migrated through the Middle East, settled in the Iranian Plateau,[http://sentencedict.com/dravidian.html] and then made their way to India.
9, The governor of a province, a cotton millionaire, a half-starved Dravidian coolie, a British private soldier were all equally human beings, to be approached in much the same way.
10, From this came the additional idea that much of what we call Hindu culture was in fact Dravidian, and later borrowed by Aryans who, however, never gave the Dravidians proper credit for it.
11, The history of the origins of Hinduism actually lies with the Dravidian peoples and this may actually be a lot further back than 1500 BC.
12, Lacy tree branches cast their shadows on the Five Raths, seventh century Dravidian shrines to Hindu gods each carved from a single, massive granite boulder.
13, If theDravidian hypothesis is correct, it might be possible to match wordsfrom the old form of Tamil, a Dravidian language spoken in Tamil Nadu, with the Indus signs.
14, Each region adapted the script of the local vernacular, whether Indo - Aryan or Dravidian.
15, Before the time the Muslims invaded the subcontinent, the new forms of South Indian bhakti were spreading beyond the bounds of the Dravidian south.
16, One of these features is the appearance of retroflex consonants in Indian languages, both Indo-European and Dravidian .
17, The ruling classes of the Harappa culture (c. 2500-1700 BC), or the Indus civilization, may have spoken a Dravidian language, but as long as their script remains undeciphered this cannot be proved.
18, There has also been reciprocal influence between Sanskrit and the Dravidian languages.
19, Base 8 languages are rare in the world, but it does appear that early Dravidian is base 8, but later changed to base 10 (possibly under Indo-European influence).
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