Dravidian
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Dravidian may refer to the following about southern South Asia:
- Dravidian languages, a language family comprising about 21 languages including the four literary languages Tamil language, Telugu language, Kannada language and Malayalam languages spoken especially in Southern India and Northeastern Sri Lanka
- Dravidian people, a member of any of the peoples that speak one of the Dravidian languages
- Dravidian architecture, a style of Temple construction
- The Self-respect movement, sometimes called the Dravidian movement or the Periyar movement, a Tamil Nadu political movement that appeals to speakers of the Tamil language
- Dravidian martial arts - a style of martial arts
- Dravida, a Sanskrit term denoting a family of related ethnicities and languages in the Southern and Central parts of India, and Northeast of Sri Lanka.
- Rahul Dravid, former Indian cricket captain and middle order batsman