Meaning of Dravidiologist | Babel Free

Definitions

One who studies Dravidian languages.

Examples

“I have tried to readjust, to a certain extent, the perspective without any other ambition than to furnish to the future Dravidiologists a cadre preparatory to more profound studies and to the linguists, curious to compare various types of languages, the elements of a portrait that has remained characteristic inspite of the inequality and the divergence of the development undergone by several members of the family.”

“What is envisaged and what this eminent Soviet Dravidiologist is speaking in favour of, is a future pan-Indian language, but it is feared that this will remain a myth of the future just as the Dravido-Uralian Ur-Sprache was nothing more than a myth of the past.”

Italian Institute for the Middle and the Far East

“The eminent Dravidiologists like M.B. Emeneau and T. Burrow treated “Kumaraṉ” as a Dravidian word from the root kom[mai] meaning the youthful and beautiful.”

“The word 'pūcaṉai' is already used in Tirukkuṟaḷ (18), in the sense of worship. Some modern Dravidiologists derived the word from 'pū+cey', meaning the flower-offering which is peculiar in South Indian temples.”

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