11 Facts About Dravidian people

Genetically, the ancient Indus Valley people were composed of an Iranian hunter gatherers-related and an Ancient Ancestral South Indian component, while present-day Dravidian speakers carry a small portion of steppe pastoralist and additional AASI ancestry.

The Brahui population of Balochistan in Pakistan has been taken by some as the linguistic equivalent of a relict population, perhaps indicating that Dravidian people languages were formerly much more widespread and were supplanted by the incoming Indo-Aryan languages.

Dravidian people languages show extensive lexical borrowing, but only a few traits of structural borrowing from Indo-Aryan, whereas Indo-Aryan shows more structural than lexical borrowings from the Dravidian people languages.

The linguistic evidence for Dravidian people impact grows increasingly strong as we move from the Samhitas down through the later Vedic works and into the classical post-Vedic literature.

Erdosy Even though the innovative traits in Indic could be explained by multiple internal explanations, early Dravidian people influence is the only explanation that can account for all of the innovations at once.

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In Dravidian people-speaking South India, the concept of divine kingship led to the assumption of major roles by state and temple.

Dravidian people formulated the basic structure of Carnatic music and is regarded as the Pitamaha of Carnatic Music.

Each of the major Dravidian people languages has its own film industry like Kollywood, Tollywood, Sandalwood, Mollywood.

The most traditional dress for Dravidian people men is the lungi, or the more formal dhoti, called veshti in Tamil, panche in Kannada and Telugu, and mundu in Malayalam.

Traditional dress of Dravidian people women is typical of most Indian women, that of the sari.

Unlike Indo-Aryan speakers, most Dravidian people women do not cover their head with the pallu except in areas of North Karnataka.