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Language code: dra

Technical information about ISO 639 language code dra

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The table below provides technical details for the Dravidian languages language, designated by the dra code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

dra

Name

Dravidian languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Northern DravidianCentral DravidianSouth-Central DravidianSouthern Dravidian
Related languages
TamilTeluguKannadaMalayalamTuluGondiKurukhBrahui
Key facts
Dravidian languages are rich in retroflex consonants, a feature that later spread to neighboring language familiesTheir morphology is predominantly agglutinative, stringing together suffixes to indicate grammatical relationsThe earliest known Dravidian inscriptions appear in Old Tamil script dating to at least the 2nd century BCESome historical linguists propose a distant link between Dravidian and the extinct Elamite language of ancient IranThe north-western outlier Brahui is spoken over 1,500 km from the nearest other Dravidian language area.
Sample phrase

வணக்கம், நீங்கள் எப்படி இருக்கிறீர்கள்?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Dravidian languages language, identified by the code dra, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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