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Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam belong to the Indo-European language family.

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The above statement is False:
All the languages are clubbed together in various language families according to their similarities and differences. Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam together form the Dravidian family. Sanskrit belongs to the Indo-European language group. The Indo-European family contains some Indian languages, such as Assamese, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, and Sindhi, and many European languages, such as English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Spanish. They belong to a family because they originally had words in common, like- ‘matr’ (Sanskrit), ‘ma’ (Hindi), and ‘mother’ (English). Other languages used in the Indian subcontinent belong to different families. Languages used in the northeast belong to the Tibeto-Burman family. Languages spoken in Jharkhand and parts of central India comprise together the Austro-Asiatic family.
The correct statement is Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam together form the Dravidian family.

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