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Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia. The list is by no means exhaustive. Some of the words can be traced to specific languages, but others have disputed or uncertain origins. Words of disputed or less certain origin are in the "Dravidian languages" list.
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Many of these features are already present in the oldest known Indo-Aryan language, the language of the Rigveda (c. 1500 BCE), which also includes over a dozen words borrowed from Dravidian. [ 109 ] Vedic Sanskrit has retroflex consonants ( ṭ / ḍ , ṇ ) with about 88 words in the Rigveda having unconditioned retroflexes.
The following are lists of words in the English language that are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages. For Old English -derived words, see List of English words of Old English origin .
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tamil is the oldest dravidian language. The word Inci is in common spoken usage in India & sri lanka. here check the link from the Chennai Lexicon: No one is disputing whether the Tamil word "inci" means "ginger". That is clearly the case. The question is whether the English word "ginger" is necessarily of Tamill origin.
The Dravidian language influenced the Indo-Aryan languages. Dravidian languages show extensive lexical (vocabulary) borrowing, but only a few traits of structural (either phonological or grammatical) borrowing from Indo-Aryan, whereas Indo-Aryan shows more structural than lexical borrowings from the Dravidian languages. [51]
Khirwar language; Kodava language; Kodava Sahitya Academy; Kolami; Konda language (Dravidian) Kondekor language; Kongu Tamil; Koraga language; Kota language (India) Koya language; Kudiya language; Kui language (India) Kumbaran language; Kunduvadi language; Kurichiya language; Kurukh language; Kurumba languages; Kuvi language