The Clue
Dravidian tongue (5 letter answer)
The Answer
TAMIL
Tags
Notes
The answer TAMIL is common and appears about once every 350 puzzles.
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Language that gave us "catamaran"
Tongue of many millions in India
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Native of Sri Lanka
Language related to Malayalam
Indian tongue
Language of 20,000,000 in India
Ceylon native
Sri Lankan language
Sri Lankan native
Dravidian language
A language of Sri Lanka
Language of many millions in India
Dravidian
Language of India
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Sri Lankan tongue
Definition
TAMIL as a noun:
1. a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka
2. the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka
TAMIL as an adjective:
1. of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself; "the Tamil Tigers are fighting the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka"; "Tamil agglutinative phrases"