Within the area of the Dravidian languages, all the cultivated and rich members of the family are not only confined to the South, but also close to one another, so close as not to allow any alien to intrude into their midst. Tamil “the earliest cultivated and most highly developed of the Dravidian languages, in many respects the representative language of the family” - is spoken farthest South. Those of the Dravidian languages spoken in North and Central India, are not only crude and devoid of literature, but scattered here and there amongst members of other families of languages.

     Even within Tamil Nadu, the language becomes purer and purer as we go farther South, and the dialects of Thirunelveli and Jaffna are by far the best in many respects.

     Thus it will be seen, that the Dravidian Form of Speech becomes more and more enriched as we go farther and farther South, and more and more impoverished as we go farther and farther North, showing that its course of corruption lies South to North. If the Dravidians were not autochthons but immigrants from the Meditterranean region, as some scholars think, the situation would have been just the reverse.

(1) Brahui

      Dr.Grierson writes regarding Brahui as follows:
      “The home of the Brahuis is the mountainous regions in Eastern Baluchistan and the neighbouring districts of Sind. They are much split up into small tribes, on account of the difficulty of access to their homes in the mountains. It is only in the Provinces of Sarawan and Jhalavan and in the Southeast, so far as Kuch in Makran, that we find them together in greater T‡mƒns, i.e., tent-villages. They also apparently avoid the plains where the Balochi reside.”