A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of LanguagesTrübner, 1875 - 608 pages |
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addition adjectival adjective affinities analogies ancient appears Aryans base becomes borrowed Brahmans Brahui called Canarese case-sign century cerebral Ceylon character Chôla classical Tamil colloquial dialect Comp compound connection consonant corresponding demonstrative dialects Dr Gundert Dravidian dialects Dravidian languages Dravidian words epicene euphonic euphonised evidently existence Finnish gender genitive Gônd grammar Greek guages Hindû identical Indo-European Indo-European languages inflexion inscriptions instances Jaina Kural lingual locative Madura Malayalam meaning modern nasal neuter nominative Northern India origin Ostiak Pândya particle peculiar plural pluralising possessive Prakrit preterite primitive probably pronominal pronoun pronunciation Ptolemy Râmânuja regarded reign relative participle resemblance root Sanskrit Sanskrit derivatives Scythian group Scythian languages second person seems signifying singular sonant sound Sûdras suffix Sundara supposed supposition Tamil alphabet Tamil language Tamilians Telugu tense terminations tion tongues tribes Tuda Tulu Turkish verb verbal noun verbal participle verbal theme vernaculars vowel whilst
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