The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka.
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]