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Dravidiology
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Etymology
From en Dravidian<alt:Dravidi(an)> ology.
Noun
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The study of Dravidian languages.
en M[urray] B[arnson] Emeneau Introduction https://books.google.com/books?id=OTzKfU5vDwYC&q=Dravidiology Kolami: A Dravidian Language Publications in Linguistics 2nd Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu w:Annamalai University 1961 The Government of India, at the time of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of the Annamalai University, made a grant for the development of Tamil Studies, and, at the instance of Sri T. M. Narayanaswami Pillai as Vice-Chancellor, a Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. S. K. Chatterjee (the Chairman of the Legislative Council, West Bengal) prepared a blue print for the development of Tamil and Dravidian Studies. One of the recommendations was to reprint rare books on Dravidiology, not now available.
en Gustav Glaesser Linguistics: M. S. Andronov, Dravidian Languages (Translated from the Russian by D.M. Segal- Languages of Asia and Africa Series - Under the General Editorship of Prof. G.P. Serdyuchenko . U.SS.R. Academy of Sciences - Institute of Oriental Studies - Moscow, « Nauka » Publ. House, Central Department of Oriental Literature, 1970, 200 pp.). w:Giuseppe Tucci East and West 22 1–2 March 1972 Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente<t:Italian Institute for the Middle and the Far East> June 1972 155 and 157 https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.06005/page/155/mode/1up This book, then, is a complete introduction to Dravidiology: to a discipline, that is, that till a short while ago, at least, was looked upon as a sort of ‘stepdaughter’ of Indology. Yet comparative Dravidiology which is worthy of the name cannot overlook the speech of the humblest Dravidian-speaking inhabitants of the jungle whose idioms are scientifically instructive for an important reason on which Andronov does not fail to lay due stress.
en Putuśśēri Rāmacandr̲an F.W. Ellis: A Dissertation on the Malayal̤ma Language Thiruvananthapuram Kannassa Vidyapeetham 2005 5 https://books.google.com/books?id=toRkAAAAMAAJ&q=Dravidiology 69241803 This is a modest attempt to highlight the pioneering contribution of the first comparativist in the field of Dravidiology by introducing his Dissertation on Malayalam Language to the public.
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