Dravidiensvignette|Langues dravidiennes Les peuples dravidiens, également appelés Dravidiens, sont les termes utilisés pour désigner, parmi les peuples non aryens et non himalayens en Inde, ceux parlant des langues dravidiennes. Vingt-six langues dravidiennes sont recensées, parlées par plus de 250 millions de personnes. Pour la plupart, elles sont concentrées dans la moitié sud de la péninsule indienne, mais deux exceptions existent dans le nord : les Brahouis au nord-ouest et les Kurukhs et Maltos au nord-est.
District d'UmariaUmaria district is a district of Madhya Pradesh. The town of Umaria is the district headquarters. The district is part of Shahdol Division. The total geographical area of the district sums up to 4548 square kilometers and has a population of 644,758. Umaria is enriched with its vast resources of forests and minerals. The coal mines are a steady source of revenue for the district. The most important mineral found in the district is coal and as a result 8 mines are being operated by South Eastern Coalfields Limited (Nowrozabad) in the district.
District de DindoriDindori District, formerly known as Ramgarh District, is a district of Madhya Pradesh state of central India. The town of Dindori is the district headquarters. The district is part of Jabalpur Division. Total area of the district is . It is located on the eastern part of Madhya Pradesh, bordering the state of Chhattisgarh. It is surrounded by Anuppur district to the northeast, Umaria district to the north, Jabalpur district to the west, Mandla district to the southwest and Mungeli and Kabirdham districts of Chhattisgarh to the south.
District de MandlaMandla District is a district of Madhya Pradesh in central India. The town of Mandla is the administrative headquarters of the district. It is part of Jabalpur Division. The district has an area of 8771 km2, and a population of 779,414. It has 9 development blocks, 6 tehsils, and 1214 villages. It lies in the Mahakoshal region, and most of the district lies in the basin of the Narmada River. In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Mandla one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).
District de SeoniSeoni District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The town of Seoni is the district headquarters. The district was created as a separate District in the newly created Chief Commissioner's Province in 1861, but was merged with the adjoining Chhindwada District in 1931. The District was, however, revived on the day the new state of Madhya Pradesh was created viz 1st November 1956. The name of the district originated from the word 'Seona' (Gudina arborea), a species of tree commonly found in the area.
Gonds (peuple)thumb|Femmes de la tribu Gond, district d'Umaria, M.P., Inde. Le peuple Gond est le plus grand groupe tribal de l'Inde avec une population dépassant 12 millions d'habitants (2017). Sur le plan linguistique, les Gonds appartiennent au sous-groupe gondi – manda de la branche sud-centrale de la famille des langues dravidiennes. Néanmoins, en 2014, la moitié de la population gond parle une langue indo-aryenne. Les Gonds sont dispersés sur les territoires de Madhya Pradesh (4,5 millions), Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Bengale-Occidental, Jharkhand, Orissa, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh (Telangana) et Karnataka.
District de ChhindwaraChhindwara district is one of the major districts of Madhya Pradesh state of India, and Chhindwara town is the district headquarters. Chhindwara is the largest district in Madhya Pradesh with an area of 11,815 square km. The district is part of Jabalpur division. The name Chhindwara has been derived from the word Chhind, the local name of a tree found commonly in the district. Chhindwara district was formed on 1 November 1956. It is on the southwest region of the Satpura Range. It is spread from 21.28 to 22.
District de BetulBetul district is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The city of Betul serves as its administrative headquarters. The district is a part of Narmadapuram Division. It lies almost wholly on the Satpura range and occupies nearly the whole width of the range between the Narmada Valley on the north and the Berar plains on the south. Little is known of the early history of the district except that it must have been the centre of the first of the four ancient Gond kingdoms of Kherla, Deogarh, Garha-Mandla and Chanda-Sirpur.
ChhindwaraChhindwara is a city in India and a Municipal Corporation in Chhindwara district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The city is the administrative headquarters of Chhindwara District. Chhindwara is reachable by rail or road from adjacent cities Betul, Jabalpur and Nagpur. The nearest airport is in Nagpur (130 km); however there is a small airport located in the city which is not serviceable for passenger planes. It was believed that Chhindwara District was full of "Chhind" trees (wild date palms) many years ago, and the place was called "Chhind"-"Wada" (wada means place).
Alphasyllabaire télougouL’alphasyllabaire télougou ou télougou est un alphasyllabaire de la famille de la brahmi principalement utilisé pour écrire le télougou, une des langues dravidiennes du sud de l’Inde parlée notamment dans les états de l'Andhra Pradesh et du Telangana. Il est aussi utilisé pour écrire des textes en sanskrit et sert parfois à écrire le gondi. L'écriture s'effectue de gauche à droite. vignette|Comparaison entre l'alphasyllabaire kannada et l'alphasyllabaire télougou. Aujourd'hui encore, ces deux systèmes d'écriture sont similaires.
