is a dialect mainly spoken by the Muslim communities of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of Karnataka known as Bearys (Byaris).and a small number of Hindus in the District of Kasargod in Kerala state. Bearys spoke a language made of Malayalam idioms with Tulu phonology and grammar.[1] This dialect was traditionally known as Mappila Malayalam because of Bearys' close contact with Mappilas.[1] Due to vast influence of Tulu for centuries, it is today considered as a language, close to both Malayalam and Tulu.[1] found on wikepedia
As my knowledge the tamil is oldest language among dravidian language
The Dravidian language is used in numerous countries. They language is spoken in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Malaysia.
Telugu..!
South India is also known as "Dravida," thus anyone from the region may be called "Dravidian." However, more specifically, Dravidian peoples are those whose native language belongs to the Dravidian language family. The majority of South Indians do speak a Dravidian language, however many others speak a language belonging to the Munda language family instead and thus they are not, in this sense, "Dravidian."
Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language., One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India., The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.
Tamil is considered as the oldest language amongst the Dravidian languages.
Tamil is a Dravidian language, not an Aryan language. The Dravidian languages are a separate language family from the Indo-Aryan languages, which includes languages like Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi. Tamil has a rich literary tradition and is one of the oldest classical languages in the world.
From Dravidian language
Telugu is the most spoken dravidian language in india and so many people mistook with hindi as the most spoken dravidian language!! But it is not so, though hindi is the most spoken language in india but it is not dravidian, it is Indo-Aryan(some say Indo-Persian) If there are any grammatical mistakes in my answer, sorry for those!
Brahvi
It must be Tamil as it is the oldest of all the dravidian languages. Tamil is a classical language which is born in Lemuria. Tamil is a mother of all Dravidian language like Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Thulu. Its born before 3000 years ago.still it has a powerful grammatical and poetical value. now more then 500 million peoples are talking Tamil.
Tamil and Telugu belong to the Dravidian language family.