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200 14$aThe Dravidian languages /$fBhadriraju Krishnamurti$b[electronic resource]
210  1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2003.
215   $a1 online resource (xxvii, 545 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
225 1 $aCambridge language surveys
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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311   $a0-521-77111-0 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [504]-521) and indexes.
327   $aCover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND SYMBOLS; ABBREVI ATIONS; 1 Introduction; 2 Phonology: descriptive; 3 The writing systems of the major literary languages; 4 Phonology: historical and comparative; 5 Word formation: roots, stems, formatives, derivational suffixes and nominal compounds; 6 Nominals: nouns, pronouns, numerals and time and place adverbs; 7 The verb; 8 Adjectives, adverbs and clitics; 9 Syntax; 10 Lexicon; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF RECONSTRUCTIONS WITH GLOSSES
327   $aGENERAL INDEX
330   $aThe Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. He describes its history and writing systems, discusses its structure and typology,  and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists.
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606   $aDravidian languages
615  0$aDravidian languages.
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