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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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There are many Tamil loanwords in other languages.The Tamil language, primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, English, Malay, native languages of Indonesia, Mauritian Creole, Tagalog, Russian, and Sinhala and Dhivehi.
In the Buddhist Jataka story known as Akiti Jataka there is a mention to Damila-rattha (Tamil dynasty). While the English word Dravidian was first employed by Robert Caldwell in his book of comparative Dravidian grammar based on the usage of the Sanskrit word drāviḍa in the work Tantravārttika by Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, [35] the word ...
The popular English name Congee derives from the Tamil word கஞ்சி (kañci).The Portuguese adopted the name as canje, with the first document mentioning the dish and the word in 1563.
One of those words is the Middle Tamil kaṟi (கறி) meaning 'black' or 'burnt' and hence spiced food. [1] [2] The Oxford Dictionaries suggest an origin specifically from Tamil. [3] Other Dravidian languages, namely Malayalam (കറി kari, "hot condiments; meats, vegetables" [4]), Middle Kannada and Kodava, have similar words. [5]
Thus the Tamil word varukiṟēṉ 'I come' is composed of the verb stem varu-, the present suffix -kiṟ and the suffix of the 1st person singular -ēṉ. In Proto-Dravidian there are only two tenses, past and not past, while many daughter languages have developed a more complex tense system.