Portal:Dravidian languages and literature
The Dravidian languages are a language family spoken mainly in southern India and parts of eastern and central India as well as in northeastern Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and overseas in other countries such as Malaysia and Singapore. The most populous Dravidian languages are Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.
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- A comparative grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian family of languages by Robert Caldwell (1875) (transcription project)
Tamil[edit]
- See also Tamil Wikisource
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Puducherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and the first Indian language to be declared as a classical language by the government of India in 2004. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia and Mauritius as well as emigrant communities around the world.
- Akilathirattu Ammanai
- Tirukural, 300 BCE-300 CE by Tiruvalluvar, 1886 translation by George Uglow Pope, W. H. Drew, John Lazarus and F.W. Ellis
- The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar by Tiruvalluvar translated by V. V. S. Aiyar
- Tamil Proverbs by Peter Percival
- A classified collection of Tamil proverbs (transcription project)
- Omens and superstitions of southern India (transcription project)
- Observations on the disturbances in the Madras army in 1809 (transcription project)
- History of education in the Madras Presidency (transcription project)
- Missions in South India (transcription project)
- The Chronology Of The Early Tamils (transcription project)
- A Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India (transcription project)
- History of the Tamils from the earliest times to 600 A.D (transcription project)
- Memories of Madras (transcription project)
- In old madras (transcription project)
- The Civilian's South India-Some Places and People in Madras (transcription project)
- The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras presidency (transcription project)
- An introduction to Dravidian philology (transcription project)
- Madras in the olden time Volume 1 (transcription project)
- Madras in the olden time Volume 2 (transcription project)
- Madras in the olden time Volume 3 (transcription project)
- Catalogue of the prehistoric antiquities from Adichanallur and Perumbair (transcription project)
- Pre-Aryan Tamil Culture (transcription project)
- Agastya in the Tamil land (transcription project)
- New Light Upon Indian Philosophy (transcription project)
- War in ancient India (transcription project)
- Origin and spread of the Tamils (transcription project)
- Ancient Temples Of Tamilnadu (transcription project)
- Tamil studies (transcription project)
- Papers in Tamil Literature (transcription project)
- The Historical Study Of The Thevaram Hymns (transcription project)
- A Bibliography on Thirukkural (transcription project)
- Thus spake-The Buddha-sayings of Buddha (transcription project)
- A study of the literature-cera country-up to elevanth century (transcription project)
- The story of saiva saints (transcription project)
- Cilappadikaram The Earliest Tamil Epic (transcription project)
Telugu[edit]
- See also Telugu Wikisource
Telugu is a South-central Dravidian language native to India. It stands alongside Hindi, English and Bengali as one of the few languages with official primary language status in more than one Indian state. Telugu is the primary language in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and the union territory of Puducherry. It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Telugu ranks fourth among the languages with the highest number of native speakers in India, with 6.93 percent at the 2011 census, and fifteenth in the Ethnologue list of most widely-spoken languages worldwide. It is one of six languages designated a classical language by the Government of India.
- Telugu-English Dictionary, 1862 by Peter Percival (transcription project)
- The Telugu Primer, for the Use of Those who wish to study the Telugu language (1851) (transcription project)
- A grammar of the Teloogoo language, 1849 by Alexander Duncan Campbell (transcription project)
- Folk-lore of the Telugus, 1919 (transcription project)
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External links[edit]
- Call number PL4601 on the Online Books Page