Francis Whyte Ellis
British civil servant
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study of Dravidian languages
- In Dravidian languages: Dravidian studies
In 1816, Englishman Francis Whyte Ellis of the Indian Civil Service (at the time a division of the East India Company) introduced the notion of a Dravidian family. His Dissertation of the Telugu Language was initially published as “Note to the Introduction” of British linguist A.D. Campbell’s A…
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