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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 a 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 Be??a Ku?umba, Ku?ux, Kuvi and Malaya?am, and enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well as 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.



Trade Review

Praise for the previous edition:

‘Steever sets out the aim of this volume as being to enable "the layman or linguist … to satisfy his curiosity about these individual languages" … The volume succeeds in Steever’s aim, while in addition suggesting a number of interesting questions for further investigation.’

Bernard Comrie, Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 36 [2000]



Table of Contents

1 Introduction to the Dravidian Languages

Sanford B. Steever

2 The Dravidian Scripts

William Bright

Part I: South Dravidian

3 Old Tamil

Thomas Lehmann

4 Modern Tamil

E. Annamalai and Sanford B. Steever

5 Malayalam

P. Sreekumar

6 Betta Kurumba

Gail Coelho

7 Kannada Sanford B. Steever

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

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 16/12/2019
      ISBN13: 9781138853768, 978-1138853768
      ISBN10: 1138853763
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 a 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 Be??a Ku?umba, Ku?ux, Kuvi and Malaya?am, and enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well as 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.



      Trade Review

      Praise for the previous edition:

      ‘Steever sets out the aim of this volume as being to enable "the layman or linguist … to satisfy his curiosity about these individual languages" … The volume succeeds in Steever’s aim, while in addition suggesting a number of interesting questions for further investigation.’

      Bernard Comrie, Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 36 [2000]



      Table of Contents

      1 Introduction to the Dravidian Languages

      Sanford B. Steever

      2 The Dravidian Scripts

      William Bright

      Part I: South Dravidian

      3 Old Tamil

      Thomas Lehmann

      4 Modern Tamil

      E. Annamalai and Sanford B. Steever

      5 Malayalam

      P. Sreekumar

      6 Betta Kurumba

      Gail Coelho

      7 Kannada Sanford B. Steever

      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

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