Language in Southern India

One of the major differences between the South and the rest of India are the languages spoken. The four major languages, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu are all Dravidian languages entirely unrelated to the Indo-Aryan languages, such as Hindi, spoken in the rest of the country, though they contain many loan words from Sanskrit. Read More »

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Language in Southern India is based on Southern India by Kish Kaul, Claus Hansen, Ravikiran Rao, Jani Patokallio, Globe-trotter, Gururajs, Haleth, Tatatabot, iGuide and others. Travel guides are available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.