Dravidiology
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dravidi(an) + -ology.
Noun[edit]
Dravidiology (uncountable)
- The study of Dravidian languages.
- 1961, M[urray] B[arnson] Emeneau, “Introduction”, in Kolami: A Dravidian Language (Publications in Linguistics), 2nd edition, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu: Annamalai University:
- The Government of India, at the time of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of the Annamalai University, made a grant for the development of Tamil Studies, and, at the instance of Sri T. M. Narayanaswami Pillai as Vice-Chancellor, a Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. S. K. Chatterjee (the Chairman of the Legislative Council, West Bengal) prepared a blue print for the development of Tamil and Dravidian Studies. One of the recommendations was to reprint rare books on Dravidiology, not now available.
- 1972 March–June, Gustav Glaesser, “Linguistics: M. S. Andronov, Dravidian Languages (Translated from the Russian by D.M. Segal […]).”, in Giuseppe Tucci, editor, East and West, volume 22, numbers 1–2, Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente [Italian Institute for the Middle and the Far East], pages 155 and 157:
- This book, then, is a complete introduction to Dravidiology: to a discipline, that is, that till a short while ago, at least, was looked upon as a sort of ‘stepdaughter’ of Indology. […] Yet comparative Dravidiology which is worthy of the name cannot overlook the speech of the humblest Dravidian-speaking inhabitants of the jungle whose idioms are scientifically instructive for an important reason on which Andronov does not fail to lay due stress.
- 2005, Putuśśēri Rāmacandr̲an, F.W. Ellis: A Dissertation on the Malayal̤ma Language, Thiruvananthapuram: Kannassa Vidyapeetham, →OCLC, page 5:
- This is a modest attempt to highlight the pioneering contribution of the first comparativist in the field of Dravidiology by introducing his Dissertation on Malayalam Language to the public.