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Detailed explanation-1: -Ethnic groups. 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Dravidians belonged to the C-group people (Winters, 2007, 2008b). They migrated to Iran and India after 2600BC.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Dravidian language family, consisting of 80 varieties spoken by nearly 220 million people across southern and central India, originated about 4, 500 years ago, a study has found.

Detailed explanation-4: -The actual term Dravidian was first employed by Robert A. Caldwell, who introduced the Sanskrit word dravida (which, in a 7th-century text, obviously meant Tamil) into his epoch-making A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages (1856).