Krishnamurti Bhadriraju. The Dravidian Languages

Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 575 p. — (Cambridge Language Surveys).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 twenty-six languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as
over twenty non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time and an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family
from different aspects. He describes its history and writing system, 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.ISBN-13 978-0-511-06881-2 eBook (EBL)
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ISBN-13 978-0-521-77111-5 hardback
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