The Department, founded in 2005, one of the richest ones in the university, in terms of associated projects with UGC –SAP, Endangered Language Projects, and other Government organs, such as Ministry of IT, Ministry of Education, aims at making forked concentration on Dravidian languages and Computational side of Linguistics.       

On the Dravidian side of Studies, Koya, Kolami and Irukula languages were studied for various shades of research. To its Computational Side of Studies it  concentrated on inflectional, derivational and lexical sides of sentences. 

The Department, in its twenty years of existence, conducted National Seminars and Workshops, funded by various central government institutions, for its innovative research themes.