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No, neither Finnish nor Estonian is a Dravidian language. Dravidian languages are predominately spoken in South Asia, whereas Finnish and Estonian are closely related Uralic languages.

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No. It´s rather of the Baltic-Finnic subgroup of the Finno-Ugric group of languages; these compose a major group called URALIC family of languages.

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No, they are both Finnic languages.

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