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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:language_family
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gptkbp:class
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gptkb:Central_Dravidian
gptkb:East_Dravidian
gptkb:North_Dravidian
gptkb:South_Dravidian
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gptkbp:date
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pre-historic
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gptkbp:historicalSignificance
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gptkb:Persian
gptkb:Sanskrit
gptkb:Prakrit
English
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gptkbp:ISO639-3
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dra
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gptkbp:language
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about 80
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gptkbp:languageFamily
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gptkb:Dravidian
dra
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gptkbp:literaryTradition
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gptkb:Malayalam
gptkb:Tamil
gptkb:Telugu
Kannada
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gptkbp:mainLanguage
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gptkb:Malayalam
gptkb:Tamil
gptkb:Telugu
gptkb:Gondi
gptkb:Brahui
gptkb:Kodava
gptkb:Tulu
Kannada
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gptkbp:notableFeature
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agglutinative morphology
SOV word order
retroflex consonants
rich case system
absence of grammatical gender in some languages
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gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers
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over 220 million
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gptkbp:oldestAttestedLanguage
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gptkb:Tamil
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gptkbp:oldestText
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Tolkāppiyam (Tamil)
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gptkbp:region
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gptkb:Bangladesh
gptkb:Nepal
gptkb:Pakistan
gptkb:South_Asia
gptkb:Sri_Lanka
gptkb:Southern_India
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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Indo-Aryan languages (contact)
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gptkbp:spokenIn
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gptkb:Dravidian_peoples
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gptkbp:subfamily
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gptkb:Central_Dravidian
gptkb:East_Dravidian
gptkb:North_Dravidian
gptkb:South_Dravidian
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gptkbp:UNESCOStatus
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some endangered
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gptkbp:writingSystem
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various scripts
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Bhadriraju_Krishnamurti
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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7
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http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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The Dravidian Languages
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