達羅毗荼語系

達羅毗荼ㄊㄨˊ語系Dravida,又稱德拉維達語系)分布在印度南部的坦米爾那都邦卡納塔卡邦安德拉邦喀拉拉邦,印度中部和東部的一些地區,以及巴基斯坦的一個小地區,包括75種語言,其中馬拉雅拉姆語坦米爾語泰盧固語康納達語被認定為其所在印度邦的官方語言。坦米爾語也是斯里蘭卡新加坡的官方語言。他們的語言在巴基斯坦信德省、伊朗俾路支斯坦阿富汗也找得到。以達羅毗語為母語者有兩億五千萬人。[1]

達羅毗荼語系
地理分佈南亞
譜系學分類世界上的主要語系之一
分支
語言代碼
ISO 639-2 / 5dra

歷史

達羅毗語言普遍被認為是在印度-雅利安語系傳入印度次大陸前,印度次大陸上最廣泛使用的語言。一些學者認為達羅毗語是在公元前三千到四千年前,從伊朗高原傳入印度次大陸,但也有部分學者認為該語言起源於印度次大陸。[2]

達羅毗荼語言列表

達羅毗荼大多是印度國內使用的語言(下述有註明者除外)。

參考文獻

  • Robert Caldwell, A comparative grammar of the Dravidian, or, South-Indian family of languages, London: Harrison, 1856; Reprinted London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1913; rev. ed. by J.L. Wyatt and T. Ramakrishna Pillai, Madras, University of Madras, 1961, reprint Asian Educational Services, 1998. ISBN 978-81-206-0117-8
  • Campbell, A.D., A grammar of the Teloogoo language, commonly termed the Gentoo, peculiar to the Hindoos inhabiting the northeastern provinces of the Indian peninsula, 3d ed. Madras, Printed at the Hindu Press, 1849.
  • Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-521-77111-5
  • Subrahmanyam, P.S., Dravidian Comparative Phonology, Annamalai University, 1983.
  • Zvelebil, Kamil., Dravidian Linguistics: An Introduction", PILC (Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture), 1990
  • Zvelebil, Kamil., Tamil Literature, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1975, ISBN 978-90-04-04190-5
  • Kuiper, F.B.J., Aryans in the Rig Veda, Rodopi, 1991, ISBN 978-90-5183-307-2 (CIP)
  • Witzel, Michael, Early Sources for South Asian Substrate Languages.Boston頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館, "Mother Tongue", extra number 1999
  • Trask, Robert Lawrence. The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Routledge. 2000. ISBN 1579582184. 

附註

  1. ^ Overview of Dravidian languages. Encyclopædia Britannica. [4 July 2018]. (原始內容存檔於2020-04-13). 
  2. ^ Tamil Literature Society, Tamil Culture 10, Academy of Tamil Culture, 1963 [2008-11-25], (原始內容存檔於2022-06-09), ... together with the evidence of archaeology would seem to suggest that the original Dravidian-speakers entered India from Iran in the fourth millennium BC ... 

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