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Current distribution of Dravidian languages.. This is a list of English words that are borrowed directly or ultimately from Dravidian languages.Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia.
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Dravidian words that have found their way into English are "orange" (via Sanskrit nāraṅga, cf. Tamil nāraṅkа̄y < nāram-kа̄y), "catamaran" (Tamil kaṭṭumaram "[boat made of] bound logs"), "mango" (Tamil māṅkāy, Malayalam māṅṅa, via Portuguese manga), "mongoose" (Telugu muṅgisa, Kannada muṅgisi) and "curry" (Tamil kaṟi).
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List of English words of Dravidian origin; S. List of English words of Sanskrit origin This page was last edited on 15 September 2013, at 17:35 (UTC). ...
This is a list of words in the English language that originated in the languages of India. Hindi or Urdu. see: List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin.
Likely from a Semitic source. See Hebrew אהלים 'ahalim 'trees of lign' (SC), perhaps in turn from Dravidian [1] alphabet The ancient Greek word represents the first two letters of the Greek alphabet (alpha and beta). The Greeks got their alphabet from the Phoenician/Canaanite one.