Table of Contents

1 Introduction to the Dravidian Languages

Sanford B. Steever

2 The Dravidian Scripts

William Bright

Part I: South Dravidian

3 Old Tamil

Thomas Lehmann

4 Modern Tamil

E. Annamalai and Sanford B. Steever

5 Malayalam

P. Sreekumar

6 Betta Kurumba

Gail Coelho

7 Kannada Sanford B. Steever

8 Tulu

D.N.S. Bhat

Part II: South-Central Dravidian

9 Old Telugu

P. Ramanarasimham

10 Telugu

Bh. Krishnamurti

11 Koṇḍa

Bh. Krishnamurti and Brett A. Benham

12 Gonḍi

Sanford B. Steever

13 Kūvi

Sanford B. Steever

Part III: Central Dravidian

14 Kolami

P.S. Subrahmanyam

15 Gadaba

Peri Bhaskararao

Part IV: North Dravidian

16 Malto

Sanford B. Steever

17 Kurux

Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon

18 Brahui

Josef Elfenbein

About the Author

Sanford B. Steever holds three degrees in linguistics and a diploma in Tamil. The author of five books and 60 articles on historical linguistics, syntax, Dravidian linguistics and Tamil, he spent three years of study and fieldwork in India. He has been a member of the Linguistics Society of America for nearly 50 years, is a life member of the Dravidian Linguistics Association and serves on the advisory board of the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics.

Reviews

Praise for the previous edition:‘Steever sets out the aim of this volume as being to enable "the layman or linguist … to satisfy his curiosity about these individual languages" … The volume succeeds in Steever’s aim, while in addition suggesting a number of interesting questions for further investigation.’Bernard Comrie, Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 36 [2000]