connected with a group of languages spoken in southern India and in Sri Lanka, or with the people who speak these languages (印度南部和斯里兰卡)达罗毗荼诸语的,达罗毗荼人的 Word Originfrom Sanskrit drāviḍa ‘relating to the Tamils’ (people of southern India and Sri Lanka) (from Dravida ‘Tamil’) + -ian.