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Raven Silverwings wrote: > So Tamil and Telugu is a dravidian language... what else corresponds > with this language family?The other major Dravidian languages (with more than a crore of speakers each) are Kannada and Malayalam. These four are spoken throughout the southern tip of India. The family also includes a number of minor languages scattered as far as Pakistan.
It is thought that the IndoAryan languages learned their retroflex (or "cerebral") consonants from Dravidian, just as the southernmost Bantu presumably borrowed clicks from Khoi-San.
> And yet all the indian languages share > loans words from sanskrit, and yet they aren't true descendants of it > (I think that's clarified now, right). I'm learning, I'm learning!! :DYes, just as the Germanic and Slavic languages have loanwords from Latin and Greek.
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