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The Southern Indian languages are from the Dravidian family.The Dravidian languages are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. [31] Proto-Dravidian languages were spoken in India in the 4th millennium BCE and started disintegrating into various branches around 3rd millennium BCE. [32]
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
Since the Iron Age of India, the native languages of the Indian subcontinent have been divided into various language families, of which Indo-Aryan and Dravidian are the most widely spoken. There are also many languages belonging to unrelated language families such as Munda (from the Austroasiatic family ) and Tibeto-Burman (from the Trans ...
Geolinguistically, the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda language groups are predominantly distributed across the Indian subcontinent. The term Indic languages is also used to refer to these languages, [1] though it may be narrowed to refer only to Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. [2] The subcontinent is also home to a few language isolates ...
The Indian subcontinent [note 7] is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, ... It is socially very mixed, consisting of many language groups and religions, and ...
The process of post-Harappan/Dravidian influences on southern India has tentatively been called "Dravidianization", [72] and is reflected in the post-Harappan mixture of IVC and Ancient Ancestral South Indian people. [73] Yet, according to Krishnamurti, Dravidian languages may have reached south India before Indo-Aryan migrations. [51]
Indic languages may refer to: Indo-Aryan languages, a subgroup of the Indo-European languages spoken mainly in the north of the Indian subcontinent (used in the context of Indo-European studies) Languages of the Indian subcontinent, all the indigenous languages of the region regardless of language family, including: Dravidian languages; Munda ...
Indic languages (disambiguation) Indo-European languages, a language family native to Europe, the Iranian Plateau, and South Asia Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of Indo-European predominantly spoken in northern half of Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka