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[F]ar the most ambitious, the most promising, and most convincing hypothesis is that of Uralian and Altaic relationship with Dravidian. Not only linguistic but anthropological, ethnographic, archeological and general historic considerations may point toward this direction. The hypothesis under the term "Scythian" was first proposed by Caldwell in 1856, and more serious attempts to support it and to develop it further were made by F.O. Schroder, T. Burrow, and K.Menges. Complete lexical evidences, plus the Keltiminar Culture (next to Aral Sea) of Khorezm points to the same important contacts between the "Ural-Altaian"and Dravidian peoples.
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Dravidian University is working on, finding and empowering common features in cultural, literature and historical areas among Dravidian languages. The main objective of the University is to develop integration between Dravidian languages. Though 27 languages are identified as Dravidian languages, only four of them are sustained with well-formed scripts. Other languages are faded out and unable to create any particular scripts for their languages. This happened because the languages are spoken by socio-economic backward people. Tulu is one of such languages.
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The survival of Brahui, a Dravidian language, spoken even today by large numbers of people in Baluchistan and the adjoining areas in Afghanistan and Iran, is an important factor in the identification of the Indus Civilization as Dravidian. Brahui belongs linguistically to the North Dravidian group with several shared innovations with Kurukh and Malto; no dialectal features connect it with the South or Central Dravidian languages. Hence Parpola concludes that Brahui represents the remnants of the Dravidian language spoken in the area by the descendants of the Harappan population.
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Kannada Online is a site offering online course to learn Kannada, one of the major Dravidian languages. Besides the academic aspect of the site, it ... provides a comprehensive information about the land and people of the state of Karnataka with a thrust to culture studies. Thecoursehasdesign, patternofexaminationandfeeofitsown.
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Nearly all the people are ethnically Maldivian, a group of mixed Dravidian, Sinhalese, Arab, African, and other origins. The southern islands are the more densely populated ones. Male, the capital city, is ... the chief urban center, with more than a quarter of the country's population. The official language, Divehi, is related to Sinhala, a language of Sri Lanka.
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Tamil is the oldest language of the Dravidian languages and is the state language of Tamil Nadu. Tamil literature goes back to centuries before the Christian era. It is spoken by more than 73 million people.
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