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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      16 January 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511486876
      9780521771115
      9780521025126
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486876
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.036kg, 574 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.842kg, 576 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Language Surveys
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, Other Languages and Linguistics, Asian Studies, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Language Surveys
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Other Languages and Linguistics, Asian Studies, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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    The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. He describes its history and writing systems, discusses its structure and typology, and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists.

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    ‘… handled with great lucidity … DL is of interest to a wide range of scholars and students of language … Because of the thorough and meticulous nature of the analysis, it is an important contribution to the theory of comparative reconstruction … a timely work of great importance. The merits of the book can perhaps best be summarized by stating that, after almost a century and a half, Caldwell's great work has at last been superseded.’

    Source: School of Oriental & African Studies

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