TY - BOOK ID - 72796938 TI - The Dravidian languages PY - 2003 SN - 0521771110 0521025125 1316085368 051117876X 0511066686 0511060378 0511330618 0511486871 1280417803 1139146270 0511068816 9780511066689 9780511060373 9780511068812 9780521771115 9780511486876 9786610417803 6610417806 9781316085363 9781280417801 9781139146272 9780511330612 9780521025126 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Dravidian languages KW - Grammar KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics KW - Dravidian languages. KW - Asian languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:72796938 AB - The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. He describes its history and writing systems, discusses its structure and typology, and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists. ER -