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A provincial dialect of English . See Barnes: “Poems in Dorset Dialect,” 3 vols., 1847-62; also Grammar and Glo ary in “Trans. of Phil. Society,” 1863.     W. W. S.   Dravidian , Dravirian , or Tamulic . A family of languages, agglutinative in character, vernacular in the S. Peninsula of British India, and cla ed as Sub-Turanian. It includes Canarese , Malayalim , Tamil , Telugu , and Tulu . The term is derived from “Dravira,” a Sanskrit name for the Coromandel Coast. It is also called Nishada . See Caldwell: “Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages,” 8vo, 1861. ☞