Re: R: fw: names of ants

> <<My mother tongue is Malayalam, a Dravidian language (like Tamil, Telugu
> and Kannada). Its closest relative is Tamil. So here goes
>
> > urumbukalude peru aarum ormikkarilla (Malayalam) >>
>
> Desperately need references about Dravidian lngs. Do you know where I
should
> find 'em?
>
> Luca
>
First time I've tried the net on Dravidian languages, but let's see.

Britannica has some information . Try www.kerala.org It's got information
about Kerala and a program Translite in http://www.kerala.org/fonts It's a
transliterater. Unfortunately it's a demo but you should be able to make out
something of the script.
And look at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/vipin/www/mal.html
 and yahoo has  a category for Tamil
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Language
s/Specific_Languages/Tamil/

All in all not as much as you'd've wanted. Oh well, best of luck!