Dravidian Languages

Sanford B. Steever holds three degrees in linguistics and a diploma in Tamil. The author of five books and 60 articles on historical linguistics, syntax, Dravidian linguistics and Tamil, he spent three years of study and fieldwork in India. He has been a member of the Linguistics Society of America for nearly 50 years, is a life member of the Dravidian Linguistics Association and serves on the advisory board of the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics.

• 1 Introduction to the Dravidian Languages Sanford B. Steever2 The Dravidian Scripts William Bright Part I: South Dravidian3 Old Tamil Thomas Lehmann4 Modern Tamil E. Annamalai and Sanford B. Steever5 Malayalam P. Sreekumar 6 Betta KurumbaGail Coelho7 Kannada Sanford B. Steever8 Tulu D.N.S. BhatPart II: South-Central Dravidian9 Old Telugu P. Ramanarasimham10 Telugu Bh. Krishnamurti11 Ko¿¿a Bh. Krishnamurti and Brett A. Benham12 Gon¿i Sanford B. Steever13 Kuvi Sanford B. SteeverPart III: Central Dravidian14 Kolami P.S. Subrahmanyam15 Gadaba Peri BhaskararaoPart IV: North Dravidian16 Malto Sanford B. Steever17 Kurux Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon18 Brahui Josef Elfenbein

Praise for the previous edition:‘Steever sets out the aim of this volume as being to enable "the layman or linguist … to satisfy his curiosity about these individual languages" … The volume succeeds in Steever’s aim, while in addition suggesting a number of interesting questions for further investigation.’Bernard Comrie, Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 36 [2000]