<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a family of languages, wholly distinct from Indo-European, spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka and including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and, in Pakistan, Brahui.</li><li>a member of the aboriginal population occupying much of southern India and parts of Sri Lanka.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>also Dravidic: of or relating to this people or their language.</li></ul>