Today's Dravidian languages have, in addition to the inherited Dravidian vocabulary, a large number of words from Sanskrit or later Indo-Aryan languages. In Tamil, they make up a relatively small proportion, not least because of targeted linguistic puristic tendencies in the early 20th century, while in Telugu and Malayalam the number of Indo-Aryan loanwords is large. In Brahui, which was strongly influenced by its neighboring languages due to its distance from the other Dravidian languages, only a tenth of the vocabulary is of Dravidian origin. [16] More recently, like all the languages of India, the Dravidian languages also have words borrowed from English on a large scale; less numerous are the loanwords from Portuguese.
Today's Dravidian languages have in addition to the inherited Dravidian vocabulary a large number of words from Sanskrit or later Indo-Aryan languages In Tamil they make up a relatively small proportion not least because of targeted linguistic puristic tendencies in the early 20th century while in Telugu and Malayalam the number of Indo-Aryan loanwords is large In Brahui which was strongly influenced by its neighboring languages due to its distance from the other Dravidian languages only a tenth of the vocabulary is of Dravidian origin [16] More recently like all the languages of India the Dravidian languages also have words borrowed from English on a large scale; less numerous are the loanwords from Portuguese