North Dravidian | |
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Northern Dravidian Brahui–Kurukh | |
Geographic distribution | Baluchistan and Eastern India |
Linguistic classification | Dravidian
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Proto-language | Proto-Northern Dravidian |
Subdivisions | |
Language codes | |
Glottolog | nort2698 |
The Northern Dravidian languages are a branch (Zvelebil 1990:56) of the Dravidian languages that includes Brahui, Kurukh and Malto. (There have been slight differences in the way the Dravidian languages are grouped by various Dravidian linguists: See Subrahmanyam 1983, Zvelebil 1990, Krishnamurthi 2003). It is further divided into Kurukh–Malto and Brahui.