Language family

Dravidian

The languages of southern India and northern Sri Lanka – Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam each have tens of millions of speakers and their own scripts. Smaller members are scattered across central India, and Brahui is spoken as far away as Pakistan.

9 languages on this site · c. 304 million speakers in total (sum of estimates, bilingual people counted more than once) · the main official language in 0 countries.

Classification: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Branches are selected nodes of the Glottolog tree.