TY  - GEN
AU  - Steever,Sanford B  (ed)
TI  - The Dravidian languages 
T2  - Routledge language family series
SN  - 9781138853768 (HB)
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Dravidian languages
N1  - 1. Introduction to the Dravidian Languages / Sanford B. Steever
2. The Dravidian Scripts / William Bright and Peter T. Daniels
Part I: South Dravidian: 3. Old Tamil / Thomas Lehmann
4. Modern Tamil / E. Annamalai and S.B. Steever
5. Malayalam / P. Shreekumar
6. Kannada / Sanford B. Steever
7. Betta Kurumba / Gail Coelho
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
Index
N2  - "The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. This authoritative reference source provides a unique description of the languages, covering their grammatical structure and historical development, plus sociolinguistic features. Each chapter combines modern linguistic perspective with traditional historical linguistics, and a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. New to this edition are chapters on Beṭṭa Kur̲umba, Kuṛux, Kūvi and Malayāḷam, enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well updated bibliographies and demographic data throughout. The Dravidian Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of comparative literature, areal linguistics and South Asian studies"
ER  -