Portal:Dravidian languages and literature

Works

 * 1) A comparative grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian family of languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)

Tamil

 * See also Tamil Wikisource

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Puducherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and the first Indian language to be declared as a classical language by the government of India in 2004. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia and Mauritius as well as emigrant communities around the world.


 * Akilathirattu Ammanai
 * Tirukural, 300 BCE-300 CE by Tiruvalluvar, 1886 translation by George Uglow Pope, W. H. Drew, John Lazarus and F.W. Ellis
 * The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar by Tiruvalluvar translated by V. V. S. Aiyar
 * Tamil Proverbs by Peter Percival
 * A classified collection of Tamil proverbs
 * Omens and superstitions of southern India
 * Observations on the disturbances in the Madras army in 1809
 * History of education in the Madras Presidency
 * Missions in South India
 * The Chronology Of The Early Tamils
 * A Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India
 * History of the Tamils from the earliest times to 600 A.D
 * Memories of Madras
 * In old madras
 * The Civilian's South India-Some Places and People in Madras
 * The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras presidency
 * An introduction to Dravidian philology
 * Madras in the olden time Volume 1
 * Madras in the olden time Volume 2
 * Madras in the olden time Volume 3
 * Catalogue of the prehistoric antiquities from Adichanallur and Perumbair
 * Pre-Aryan Tamil Culture
 * Agastya in the Tamil land
 * New Light Upon Indian Philosophy
 * War in ancient India
 * Origin and spread of the Tamils
 * Ancient Temples Of Tamilnadu
 * Tamil studies
 * Papers in Tamil Literature
 * The Historical Study Of The Thevaram Hymns
 * A Bibliography on Thirukkural
 * Thus spake-The Buddha-sayings of Buddha
 * A study of the literature-cera country-up to elevanth century
 * The story of saiva saints
 * Cilappadikaram The Earliest Tamil Epic

Telugu

 * See also Telugu Wikisource

Telugu is a South-central Dravidian language native to India. It stands alongside Hindi, English and Bengali as one of the few languages with official primary language status in more than one Indian state. Telugu is the primary language in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and the union territory of Puducherry. It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Telugu ranks fourth among the languages with the highest number of native speakers in India, with 6.93 percent at the 2011 census, and fifteenth in the Ethnologue list of most widely-spoken languages worldwide. It is one of six languages designated a classical language by the Government of India.
 * Telugu-English Dictionary, 1862 by Peter Percival
 * The Telugu Primer, for the Use of Those who wish to study the Telugu language (1851)
 * A grammar of the Teloogoo language, 1849 by Alexander Duncan Campbell
 * Folk-lore of the Telugus, 1919