Dravidian

language family mostly of southern India
Language language_family Q33311
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Dravidian

Summary

Dravidian is a language family[1]. Dravidian ranks in the top 0.89% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,989 views/month, #9 of 1,012).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dravidian's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Dravidian is a type of human language[4].
  • Dravidian's writing system is recorded as Brahmic scripts[5].
  • Dravidian's Commons category is recorded as Dravidian languages[6].
  • Dravidian's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dravidian languages[7].
  • Dravidian's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+200000000'}[8].
  • Dravidian's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[9].
  • Dravidian's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].
  • Dravidian's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • Dravidian's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Dravidian's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[13].
  • Dravidian's topic has template is recorded as Template:Dravidian languages[14].
  • Dravidian's indigenous to is recorded as Dravidian people[15].
  • Dravidian's studied by is recorded as Dravidian studies[16].
  • Dravidian's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/DRA[17].
  • Dravidian's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133091414[18].
  • Dravidian's has grammatical case is recorded as antessive case[19].
  • Dravidian's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[20].
  • Dravidian's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21].
  • Dravidian's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Dravidian languages[22].
  • Dravidian's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Languages[23].
  • Dravidian's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Languages of India[24].
  • Dravidian's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject India[25].
  • Dravidian's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Tamil civilization[26].
  • Dravidian's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Tamil Eelam[27].

Why It Matters

Dravidian ranks in the top 0.89% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,989 views/month, #9 of 1,012).[2] Dravidian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Dravidian is known by 93 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19d ago · MarisDreshmanisBot bot · 2026-05-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id C161909
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||no, gv, sr, zea, oc */ Add 5 multilingual descriptions extracted from Wikipedia article first sentences (universal multilingual maintenance — Q-walker v2.1)."
  2. 27d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of human language
    Umls cui C0574284
    Topic has template Template:Dravidian languages
    Instance of
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P2892]]: C0574284"
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