Dravidian Languages
Dravidian Languages
Dravidian Languages
Samskruti says, Dravidian Languages one of the oldest languages in the world .The Dravidian
language family today includes ! languages s"oken #y over $%% million "eo"le in southern
India, Sri Lanka, certain areas of &akistan and in 'e"al. The "revailing theory is that s"eakers
of Dravidian languages s"lit into 'orthern, (entral, and Southern ancestral languages
somewhere around ),!%% *(. The oldest inscri"tion found in Tamil language #ack dated to
$*(+.
,ut of many Dravidian languages, some of the main languages are Telugu, Tamil, -annada and
.alayalam "ossesses inde"endent scri"ts and literary histories dating from the "re/(hristian
+ra. In India itself over $01 "eo"le s"eak these languages and mainly in southern India. ,f the
Dravidian languages, Tamil has the oldest literature, "aralleled in India only #y that of Sanskrit
In order to survive in this current world one need to have e2"osure to various languages
es"ecially +nglish, #ut #ecause of this running around, many "arents not finding time to teach
a#out our 3 your native language4 languages, which is causing one great hurdle to understand
our #eloved culture.
&lease rise u" and dedicate some time with your children to teach them a#out languages.
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