(1) However, distances and principal components analysis reveal that Pardhans are far removed from the other tribes and from other central Dravidian tribes.
(2) The highest frequency of PiM2 was found in the Dravidian Indians (0.28) followed by the Thais (0.25).
(3) Three different ethnic groups from Singapore comprising 79 Chinese, 34 Malays and 23 Indians of Dravidian origin, were investigated for the HindIII RFLP at the DNF15S2 locus.
(4) The frequency of PON*B was found to be 0.14 in the Chinese, 0.04 in the Filipinos and 0.18 in Dravidian Indians.
(5) The phenomenon of emphasis is studied with regard to the phonetic variation of the vowel and consonant units of the word structure in Telugu, a Dravidian language spoken mainly in South India.
(6) They are nearer to the Irula and Kurumba tribes of the Nilgiris rather than the other Dravidian tribes, Tamils, or Nayars.
(7) Diwali and Dussehra are both upper-caste holidays that celebrate the death of tribals and the ascent of Aryan culture over Dravidian culture,” said Soundararajan, a Dalit American artist and activist.
(8) The distribution of serum alpha 1-protease inhibitor (PI) or alpha 1-antitrypsin (alpha 1AT) subtypes was determined by thin-layer isoelectric focusing in a group of 1233 individuals from six Mongoloid populations of East Asia and Dravidian Indians.
(9) This is an anthropological study of the development of the mastoid process in the four ethnic groups of Pakistani races: Turko-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Scytho-Dravidian, and Aryo-Dravidian.
(10) The Santal and Bhuiya tribes both speak Mundari, whereas the Oraons speak a Dravidian language.
(11) The IAPP gene was studied in a well-characterised population of 62 unrelated Dravidian subjects with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and 56 normal Dravidian controls, using a restriction fragment length polymorphism generated by PvuII digestion.
(12) Three populations of southeast Asia comprising 194 Chinese, 159 Filipinos and 73 Dravidian Indians were investigated for serum paraoxonase polymorphism.
(13) In order to define the genetic contribution to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in an Indian population we have analysed 58 unrelated Dravidian (South Indian) insulin-dependent diabetic patients and 43 controls.
(14) The frequencies of the three alleles--APOH*1, APOH*2, and APOH*3--were found to be 0.031, 0.900, and 0.069 in the Chinese; 0.061, 0.866, and 0.073 in the Dravidian Indians; 0.055, 0.923, and 0.022 in the Filipinos; and 0.088, 0.882, and 0.029 in the Malays.
(15) However, a more detailed dermatoglyphic study of all the tribes of Andhra Pradesh yields information of great value in disclosing the pattern distributions among these Dravidian or proto-Australoid tribal populations.
(16) A total of 627 subjects comprising 455 Chinese, 127 Dravidian Indians and 45 Malays were investigated for serum Apo A-IV polymorphism.
(17) The Indian population can be divided broadly into Dravidians and the Aryans.
(18) The high frequency (27 per cent) of PFC marriages in some Hindu communities necessitates in-depth studies to elucidate the forces at work which go against the very fundamentals of Dravidian kinship.
(19) Blood specimens from 134 Oraon, a Dravidian-speaking tribe in Bihar, India, have been tested for haptoglobin, transferrin, ceruloplasmin, phosphoglucomutase, lactate dehydrogenase, albumin, and malate dehydrogenase types by starch gel electrophoresis.
(20) The sample included 872 Chinese, 179 Asiatic Indians (Dravidian), 91 Filipinos, and 17 Malays.
Malayalam
Definition:
(n.) The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil.
Example Sentences:
(1) The programme has been translated into Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Marathi.
(2) Forget about the tradition of Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, or the regional cinema produced for speakers of Tamil, Malayalam and other Indian languages: flick through a western newspaper and the images that tumble out are of epic song-and-dance routines and long lines of extras screwing in lightbulbs.