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Dravidian (adj.)

1856, "pertaining to the race in southern India or the languages spoken by them" (Tamil, Telugu, Kanarese, Malayalam, etc.), from Sanskrit Dravidah, name of a region in southern India, + -ian.

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-ian 
variant of suffix -an (q.v.), with connective -i-. From Latin -ianus, in which the -i- originally was from the stem of the word being attached but later came to be felt as connective. In Middle English frequently it was -ien, via French.
Tamil 
Dravidian people and language of southern India, 1734, from Pali Damila, from Sanskrit Dramila, variant of Dravida (see Dravidian).

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Definitions of Dravidian from WordNet

Dravidian (n.)
a member of one of the aboriginal inhabitants of India;
Dravidian (n.)
a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka;
Synonyms: Dravidic / Dravidian language
From wordnet.princeton.edu

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