SCHEME I. Groupings and genetic relations of various Dravidian languages.

Konda, Pengo (?), Koya (?), Dorli (?), Gondi (with a number of dialects), Kurugh, Malto and Brahui.

It is not yet certain that all the Dravidian languages have been found. Thus Pengo (with close relations to Kui and Kuvi) was discovered only in 1957-58, and it is well possible that future investigation will add some more languages notably in Central India but also in the extreme South West. It is also not clear what are the relations of a number of speeches like Savara (allied to Telugu and spoken by the Savara Dora in South Korāpuṭ), Dorli (of South Bastar), Koya (spoken in South West Korapuṭ), Kaikāḍāī (said to be a Tamil dialect), Kāḍar (said to be a Tamil or Malayalam dialect), Baḍaga (probably a dialect of Kannada) and some other speeches, to the cognate languages and to each other. It is not unlikely that some of them at least are independent languages of the family (as Pengo almost surely is, and perhaps also Dorli, Koya, Savara, etc.).

From the four literary languages, Tamil is the one which is the most well-known, enjoys the greatest geographical extension, has the