Telugu Verbal Bases

Telugu Verbal Bases
Author: Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2009-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9788120823242

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (1928) is Professor and Head of the department of Linguistics at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He received a B.A. (Hons.) Degree (1948) in Telugu language and literature at Andhra University Waltair and an M.A. (1955) and Ph.D. (1957) in linguistics from the university of Pennsylvania U.S.A.

The Dravidian Languages

The Dravidian Languages
Author: Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2003-01-16
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1139435337

The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. He describes its history and writing systems, discusses its structure and typology, and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists.

The Dravidian Languages

The Dravidian Languages
Author: Sanford B. Steever
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2019-12-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1317525396

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 a 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 Kuṟumba, Kuṛux, Kūvi and Malayāḷam, and enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well as 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.

Linguistics in South Asia

Linguistics in South Asia
Author: Murray B. Emeneau
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110819503

Languages of South Asia

Languages of South Asia
Author: G. A. Zograph
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2023-03-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000831655

First published in 1982, Languages of South Asia covers all important languages and language groups of the so-called Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan). It concentrates on the more southern languages, that is the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda groups; a brief survey of Tibeto-Burman languages is also included. As well as giving a description of the current status and character of each language, Dr. Zograph goes into a detailed structural analysis of its phonology, morphology and syntax. The problems of the historical background of the modern languages, and their classification, are also discussed. The book is supplemented by two language maps, tables showing the main alphabets, a bibliography of reliable works on the subject and an index of 350 language names used in the text. This book will be of interest to students of language, linguistics and South Asian studies.