Dravidiologist

plural Dravidiologists

1. One who studies Dravidian languages.

   The eminent Dravidiologists like M.B. Emeneau and T. Burrow treated “Kumaraṉ” as a Dravidian word from the root kom[mai] meaning the youthful and beautiful.

   2001, S.N. Kandaswamy, “The Cult of Murukan in Paripāṭal”, in Tamil Literature and Indian Philosophy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu: International Institute of Tamil Studies, page 315

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   I have tried to readjust, to a certain extent, the perspective without any other ambition than to furnish to the future Dravidiologists a cadre preparatory to more profound studies and to the linguists, curious to compare various types of languages, the elements of a portrait that has remained characteristic inspite^([sic]) of the inequality and the divergence of the development undergone by several members of the family.

   1954 May, Jules Bloch, translated by Ramkrishna Ganesh Harshé, “Introduction”, in The Grammatical Structure of Dravidian Languages (Deccan College Hand-book Series; 3), Poona, Maharashtra: Deccan College Post-graduate and Research Institute, page xxx

   What is envisaged and what this eminent Soviet Dravidiologist is speaking in favour of, is a future pan-Indian language, but it is feared that this will remain a myth of the future just as the Dravido-Uralian Ur-Sprache was nothing more than a myth of the past.

   Italian Institute for the Middle and the Far East

   1972 March–June, Gustav Glaesser, “Linguistics: M. S. Andronov, Dravidian Languages (Translated from the Russian by D.M. Segal […]).”, in Giuseppe Tucci, editor, East and West, volume 22, numbers 1–2, Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente [Italian Institute for the Middle and the Far East], page 158, column 2

   The word 'pūcaṉai' is already used in Tirukkuṟaḷ (18), in the sense of worship. Some modern Dravidiologists derived the word from 'pū+cey', meaning the flower-offering which is peculiar in South Indian temples.

   2006, S. N. Kandaswamy, transl., Tēvāram Sundarar (Patikams 1-50) (Paṉṉiru Tirumuṟai, volume XIV, part I; Silver Jubilee Celebration Series, 14), Chemmancherry, Chennai: Institute of Asain Studies, →ISBN, page 115