A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh. / Any of the languages of these aboriginal peoples; Dravidic.

A member of any of several aboriginal peoples of India and Sri Lanka thought to have spread in India before Aryan migration.

Of or relating to the Dravidian people or language.

plural of Dravidian

(Indian politics) A belief in the need for autonomy, and often the inherent superiority, of the Dravidian peoples of South India.

The quality, state or characteristic of being Dravidian.

The hypothetical, ancestral proto-language from which the Dravidian languages (which include Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam among others) are descended.

(India) One who studies Dravidian languages. / (Indian politics) An adherent of Dravidianism.

plural of Dravidianist