The Dravidian language family is concentrated in southern India and parts of Sri Lanka and Pakistan, comprising roughly eighty languages including the major literary languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam alongside smaller Central and North Dravidian languages such as Gondi, Brahui, Kurukh and Malto, with the extinct language isolate Elamite sometimes proposed, without wide acceptance, as a distant relative under the Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis. This group holds every Eurasian Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as Dravidian or as one of its recognized branches: South, Central, North and South-Central Dravidian.
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The Dravidian languages are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, primarily in South India, but also in parts of North India, Bangladesh and Nepal, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets in Afghanistan and Iran.
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