Dravidiologist

Noun

Dravidiologist (plural Dravidiologists)

1. One who studies Dravidian languages.
   • I have tried to readjust, to a certain extent, the perspective without any other ambition than to furnish to the future Dravidiologists a cadre preparatory to more profound studies and to the linguists, curious to compare various types of languages, the elements of a portrait that has remained...1954 May, Jules Bloch, translated by Ramkrishna Ganesh Harshé, “Introduction”, in The Grammatical Structure of Dravidian Languages (Deccan College Hand-book Series; 3), Poona, Maharashtra: Deccan...
   • What is envisaged and what this eminent Soviet Dravidiologist is speaking in favour of, is a future pan-Indian language, but it is feared that this will remain a myth of the future just as the Dravido-Uralian Ur-Sprache was nothing more than a myth of the past.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...