A branch of the Dravidian family, independent of Indo-European despite millennia of contact in South Asia. Belongs here: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam. Does not belong here: an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the same South Asian region but genetically unrelated, such as Hindi or Bengali, grouped under Indo-Aryan Languages instead.
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1. Wikipedia: Dravidian Languages
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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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