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Thematic map of South Asia showing the distribution of Dravidian languages, with different regions shaded or marked to indicate where specific Dravidian languages and subgroups are spoken. Most languages are concentrated in southern and central India, with some northern outliers in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and eastern India. A key identifies the languages by number and subgroup, and striped areas indicate regions where several subgroups overlap. South Dravidian languages
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Thematic map of South Asia showing the distribution of Dravidian languages, with different regions shaded or marked to indicate where specific Dravidian languages and subgroups are spoken. Most languages are concentrated in southern and central India, with some northern outliers in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and eastern India. A key identifies the languages by number and subgroup, and striped areas indicate regions where several subgroups overlap.
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The Irula are a Veddoid people inhabiting the Deccan plateau of India. The Irula language is one of the nonliterary South Dravidian languages spoken by Scheduled Tribes in the Nilgiri Hills of southwestern Tamil Nadu, near Karnataka. Linguists and anthropologists find these languages of great interest because they have preserved distinctions in stop consonants, a feature present in Proto-Dravidian.12

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