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|name=Proto-South Dravidian<br />
|familycolor=Dravidian<br />
|ancestor=[[Proto-Dravidian]]<br />
|target=[[Dravidian languages]]<br />
|era=ca. 2nd-3rd m. BCE<br />
|region=[[South India]]<br />
}}<br />
{{Dravidian}}<br />
'''Proto-South Dravidian''' is the [[linguistic reconstruction]] of the common ancestor of the south Dravidian languages.<ref name="Krishnamurti-2003">{{cite book |first=Bhadriraju |last=Krishnamurti |title=The Dravidian Languages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54fV7Lwu3fMC |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-43533-8}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Andronov |first=Mikhail Sergeevich |title=A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages |year=2003 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz |isbn=978-3-447-04455-4 | postscript = . |p=299}}</ref> Its descendants include [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Kannada]], [[Malayalam]], [[Tulu language|Tulu]], [[Badaga language|Badaga]], [[Kodava language|Kodava]], [[Irula language|Irula]], [[Kota language (India)|Kota]] and [[Toda language|Toda]].<br />
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It has been estimated that Proto-South Dravidian existed until the beginning of the 7th century BCE. However, knowledge of the early history of Dravidian languages remains limited.<ref name="Andronov 1964">{{cite journal |last=Andronov |first=M. |date=1964 |title=Lexicostatistic analysis of the chronology of disintegration of Proto-Dravidian |journal=Indo-Iranian Journal |volume=7 |issue=2/3 |pages=170–186 |doi=10.1163/000000064791616433 }}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
{{sister project |project=wiktionary |text=[[Wiktionary]] has a list of reconstructed Proto-Dravidian forms at '''''[[Wiktionary:Appendix:Proto-Dravidian reconstructions|Appendix:Proto-Dravidian reconstructions]]'''''}}<br />
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