Dravidian names a family of related languages spoken in the south of India and the north of Sri Lanka. Tamil is the one most learners hear about; Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam belong here too. You can also call the people of that language group Dravidian.

Dravidian names a family of related languagesDravidian指的是一個語系, spoken in the south of India and the north of Sri Lanka使用地區在印度南部和斯里蘭卡北部。Tamil is the one most learners hear about泰米爾語是學習者最常聽到的一種; Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam belong here too泰盧固語、坎納達語和馬拉雅拉姆語也屬於這個語系。You can also call the people of that language group Dravidian你也可以把說這個語系的人稱作Dravidian

It is a school-and-scholarship word — linguistics, history, textbooks — not a word for the market or the bus. Though actually, it is not another way of saying “Indian”: India has more than one language family, and Hindi, for example, is not Dravidian.

It is a school-and-scholarship word這是個學術、學校裡用的字 — linguistics, history, textbooks用在語言學、歷史、教科書裡 — not a word for the market or the bus不是市場或公車上會用的字。Though actually, it is not another way of saying "Indian"不過其實，這不是「印度」的另一種說法: India has more than one language family印度不只有一個語系, and Hindi, for example, is not Dravidian舉例來說，印地語就不屬於Dravidian語系

The English word is Sanskrit drāviḍa plus the ending -ian. Scholars think that Sanskrit name itself grew out of an older form of Tamil, with an extra r put in along the way.

The English word is Sanskrit drāviḍa plus the ending -ian這個英文字是梵語drāviḍa加上字尾-ian組成的。Scholars think that Sanskrit name itself grew out of an older form of Tamil學者認為這個梵語名稱本身，是從更古老形式的泰米爾語演變出來的, with an extra r put in along the way過程中多加了一個r進去