What race are Dravidian people?

The Dravidian peoples, or Dravidians, are an ethnolinguistic group living in South Asia who predominantly speak any of the Dravidian languages. There are around 245 million native speakers of Dravidian languages.

What are the physical features of Dravidians?

3. Dravidian: The Dravidians are characterized by the dolichocephalic heads, medium stature, brownish black skin colour and the mesorrhine nose. They possess plentiful hair, which are wavy with an occasional tendency to curl.

Are Aryans and Dravidians different?

People living in North India have been referred to as Aryans, and those belonging to south India have been labeled as Dravidians for the last many centuries. Indians were made to believe that north Indians are descendants of Aryans while south Indians are the descendants of Dravidians.

Are telugus Dravidians?

The four major Dravidian groups of South India — Telugus (of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Tamils (of Tamil Nadu, and also of northern Sri Lanka), Kannadigas (of Karnataka), and Malayalis (of Kerala) — have interesting and dynamic histories.

What is the race of the Dravidians?

The “Dravidian race” does not exist today anymore. Today Dravidian is a language family, including all people that speak a Dravidian language. In ancient times, Dravidians were a highly cultivated and advanced society. It is not know to what “race” they belonged, but skull and bone analyses suggest a ancestral connections to Caucasoid race.

How are Dravidians different from South Asians?

At first, today Dravidians are the speakers of the Dravidian languages: Secondly, mostly all people of South Asia (the Indian subcontinent) are geneticaly closer to each other than to people outside of the continent but compared with world wide populations South Asians are closest to Middle Easterners (West Asians) and Europeans.

How many native speakers of Dravidian languages are there?

There are around 245 million native speakers of Dravidian languages. Dravidian speakers form the majority of the population of South India and are natively found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Sri Lanka.

Which is the largest Dravidian ethnic group in India?

The largest Dravidian ethnic groups are the Telugus from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the Tamils from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore, the Kannadigas from Karnataka, the Malayalis from Kerala, and the Tulu people from Karnataka. Badagas are found in Tamil Nadu .