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| Davindian | |
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| 𑀤𑁆𑀭𑀯𑀺𑀦𑁆𑀤𑀺𑀅𑀦𑁆 | |
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| Writing | w:Grantha script |
| Region: | w:South Indian |
| Genders: | 3 |
| Cases: | 8 |
| Alignment | Nominative-Accusative |
| Proto-language: | w:Proto-Dravidian language |
| Typology: | Fusional |
| Word-Order | VSO |
| Languages: | w:Kannada,
w:Tamil language, w:Telugu language w:Malayalam w:Tulu language w:Brahui language |
| Population: | 220 million |
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Africa: SEDES • Middle Semitic • Kintu • Guosa Central Asia: Jalpi • Caucas • Zens • Dravindian • Neo-Sanskrit Europe: Intralingua • Folksprak • Interslavic • Balkan • Samboka Far East: Dan'a'yo • IM • MSEAL | |
These language are unified by vocabulary, word-order, grammatical cases, grammatical genders, clusivity, typology, phonology, and morphosyntactic alignment. There are no tones. Consonants five places of articulation and four manners for obstruents. Vowels are the five-vowel system, but all available in short and long.
Need to buy T. Burrow (1984). Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-864326-5
Anthropology
- The presence of verbs that follow their objects rather than precede them. When subjects are present, the will generally precede the objects.
- The placing in object position of goals of verbs of motion, predicate nominals and adjectives, adverbial complements, and infinitival complements of catenatives.
- The use of verbal auxiliaries that follow rather than precede the main verb with which they are used
- The marking of syntactic functions of nominal elements by means of postpositions, as opposed to prepositions
- Patterns of word order in which adjectives, genitive phrases, demonstratives, and numerals generally precede the noun they modify
- Qualifiers precede adjectives
- Causative verbs
- conjunctive particles
- explicator compound verbs
- dative constructions
- no "to have"
- no articles
- case
- clusivity
- two genders
Phonology
- No tone
- Five places of articulation and four manners for obstruents
| Labial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | /m/ 𑀫 | /n/ 𑀦 | /ɳ/ 𑀡 | /ɲ/ 𑀜 | /ŋ/ 𑀗 |
| Unvoiced | /p/ 𑀧 | /t/ 𑀢 | /ʈ/ 𑀝 | /c/ 𑀘 | /k/ 𑀓 |
| Voiced | /b/ 𑀩 | /d/ 𑀤 | /ɖ/ 𑀟 | /ɟ/ 𑀚 | /g/ 𑀕 |
| Aspirated | /pʰ/ 𑀨 | /tʰ/ 𑀣 | /ʈʰ/ 𑀞 | /cʰ/ 𑀙 | /kʰ/ 𑀔 |
| Breathy | /bʰ/ 𑀪 | /dʰ/ 𑀥 | /ɖʰ/ 𑀠 | /ɟʰ/ 𑀛 | /gʰ/ 𑀖 |
| Fricative | /v/ 𑀯 | /s/ 𑀲 | /ʂ/ 𑀱 | /ɕ/ 𑀰 | /h/ 𑀳 |
| Lateral | /l/ 𑀮 | /ɭ/ 𑀴 | |||
| Approximant | /r/ 𑀭 | /ɻ/ 𑀶 | /j/ 𑀬 |
