Dravidian historical linguistics

3rd person accent adjectives Aiyar alternation analysis Andronov attested authors become Bloch Brahui Burrow Caldwell Caldwell's Central century classical Classical Tamil closely Colloquial common comparative connected consonants constructions correspondences demonstrative derived dialects distinct Dravidian languages elements Emeneau etymological evident existence expressed final finite forms forms frequently Gadaba genetic Gondi grammar guages hand historical included Indian Indo-Aryan Indo-Aryan languages initial instance Kannada known Kolami Kota Kurukh later linguistics literary Malayalam Malto meaning morphological Moscow nature nouns original Parji past period person phonetic plural position present problem pronouns Proto-Dravidian proved published reconstructed regarded relationship relative remains respective result root Russian Sanskrit separate similar singular sound South speech stage stem structure studies suffixes syllable Tamil Telugu tense texts traced Tulu turned verb verbal participles voiced vowels whereas whole words