The Dravidian languages

The Dravidian languages

by Steever, Sanford B.

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"The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. This authoritative reference source provides a unique description of the languages, covering their grammatical structure and historical development, plus sociolinguistic features. Each chapter combines modern linguistic perspective with traditional historical linguistics, and a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparis…

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  • Full title :The Dravidian languages / edited by Sanford B. Steever.

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"The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. This authoritative reference source provides a unique description of the languages, covering their grammatical structure and historical development, plus sociolinguistic features. Each chapter combines modern linguistic perspective with traditional historical linguistics, and a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. New to this edition are chapters on Beṭṭa Kur̲umba, Kuṛux, Kūvi and Malayāḷam, enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well updated bibliographies and demographic data throughout. The Dravidian Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of comparative literature, areal linguistics and South Asian studies"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2020.
  • Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xxi, 541 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781138853768, 1138853763
  • oclc:on1141780008
  • LC Classification:PL4601
  • Dewey Decimal:494/.8

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the Dravidian Languages / Sanford B. Steever -- 2. The Dravidian Scripts / William Bright and Peter T. Daniels -- Part I: South Dravidian: 3. Old Tamil / Thomas Lehmann -- 4. Modern Tamil / E. Annamalai and S.B. Steever -- 5. Malayalam / P. Shreekumar -- 6. Kannada / Sanford B. Steever -- 7. Betta Kurumba / Gail Coelho -- 8. Tulu / D.N.S. Bhat -- Part II: South-Central Dravidian: 9. Old Telugu / P. Ramanarasimham -- 10. Telugu / Bh. Krishnamurti -- 11. Koṇḍa / Bh. Krishnamurti and Brett A. Benham -- 12. Gonḍi / Sanford B. Steever -- 13. Kūvi / Sanford B. Steever -- Part III: Central Dravidian: 14. Kolami / P.S. Subrahmanyam -- 15. Gadaba / Peri Bhaskararao -- Part IV: North Dravidian: 16. Malto / Sanford B. Steever -- 17. Kurux / Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon -- 18. Brahui / Josef Elfenbein -- Index.

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Subjects

Dravidian languages Langues dravidiennes

Writers

Steever, Sanford B.

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