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North Dravidian languages information


North Dravidian
Northern Dravidian
Brahui–Kurukh
Geographic
distribution
Balochistan and Eastern India
Linguistic classificationDravidian
  • North Dravidian
Proto-languageProto-Northern Dravidian
Subdivisions
  • Brahui
  • Kurukh–Malto
Glottolognort2698
Distribution of the Dravidian languages in South Asia

The Northern Dravidian languages are a branch (Zvelebil 1990:56) of the Dravidian languages that includes Brahui, Kurukh and Malto. (There have been slight differences in the way the Dravidian languages are grouped by various Dravidian linguists: See Subrahmanyam 1983, Zvelebil 1990, Krishnamurthi 2003). It is further divided into Kurukh–Malto and Brahui.

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