| Notes l |
DRAVIDIAN-SOUTH ➤ 3 outer-languages within this set (Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam) are equated below with "scheduled languages" included in the 8th schedule to the Constitution of India, as amended in 1992. The listing and classification of idioms below – especially for these three languages – remains a provisional summary, and requires substantial verification and expansion (in order to deal with the intersection of geographic and social variations, often on the level of individual villages). |