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Dravidian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The origins of the Dravidian languages, as well as their subsequent development and the period of their differentiation, are unclear, and the situation is not helped by the lack of comparative linguistic research into the Dravidian languages. Dravidian languages are also characterized by a three-way distinction between dental, alveolar, and retroflex places of articulation as well as large numbers of liquids. The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, and eastern and central India. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dravidian_languages   (824 words)

nostratic Dravidian: Tamil paral 'pebble, seed, stone of fruit'; Malyalam paral 'grit, coarse grain, gravel, cowry shell'; Kota parl 'pebble, one grain (of any grain)'; Kannada paral, paral 'pebble, stone' Kodagu para 'pebble'; Tulu parelu 'grain of sand, grit, gravel, grain of corn, etc.; castor seed'; Kolami Parca 'gravel'. Indo-European, Dravidian, Mongolian, South Caucasian, Tungusic, Turkic, Uralic, and perhaps Afro-Asiatic. The term is difficult to pin down, however, as proponents have not agreed on the set of families to include. www.yourencyclopedia.net /Nostratic.html   (1433 words)

Dravidian India It is therefore contended that the bronze and iron age culture of Adichanallur is that of the early Dravidians. But once their race had been blended with the Dravidian, the mixed stock which resulted from the union, found itself possessed of the means of putting thoughts into visible concrete form. Our savant notes, "The fact that several Dravidian dialects, such as Brahui, Villi [Bhilli], and Santal, are found stranded in the midst of other tongues in Baluchistan, Rajaputana and Central India testifies to te once universal diffusion of the Dravidians in India." (Iyengar 1925, p.21) Little wonder that he named his work "Dravidian India". www.saxakali.com /southasia/dravidian_india.htm   (8788 words)

Learn more about Historical linguistics in the online encyclopedia. Dravidian was probably spoken in the Indus Valley Civilization. The connection between Elamite and Dravidian is extremely hypothetical, and Elamite has generally been considered to be unrelated to any other known language. Today its descendants are mostly spoken in South India. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /h/hi/historical_linguistics.html   (1132 words)

Elamo-Dravidian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In addition to Elamite and the Dravidian languages, some speculate that the extinct language or languages of the Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, may be part of the Elamo-Dravidian language family. The Elamo-Dravidian languages are a hypothesised language family which includes the living Dravidian languages of India and Pakistan, in addition to the extinct Elamite language of ancient Elam, in what is now southwestern Iran. According to McAlpin, 20% of Dravidian and Elamite vocabulary are cognates; a further 12% are probable cognates. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elamo-Dravidian_languages   (455 words)

Elamite Empire Some scholars believe it is related to the living Dravidian languages of India (see Elamo-Dravidian languages). encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/e/el/elamite_empire.html   (557 words)

Aryan Invasion Theroy and Politics: The Case of David Duke It over-confidently assumes that the structure of the language (agglutinative in the case of Dravidian, as opposed to flexive in the case of Indo-European) can be deduced from the series of signs available on the Indus seals. The thesis of a linguistic kinship between Elamite and Dravidian has become fairly popular, possibly because few scholars are both competent and willing to test it. All that is required is that the Harappan script was adopted and adapted by some of the satellite populations in the vicinity of the metropolitan area. koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /articles/aid/vedicharrapans.html   (7271 words)

5.4. LINGUISTIC ARGUMENTS For all Sergent’s details about Dravidian snake-worship, which fits in well with the classical picture of snake-worship as an “aboriginal” or at least non-Aryan element in Hinduism, it is interesting to note that he (Genèse de l’Inde, p.482, n.607) deviates from the mainstream in his etymology of nAga, “snake”. Note that earlier outspoken fans of Dravidian culture didn’t mind describing the Dravidians as immigrants: unlike the Aryans, they were bringers rather than destroyers of civilization, but they were immigrants nonetheless. Sergent suggests that the Dravidians formed a pre-Harappan population in Sindh and Gujarat, and that they were overwhelmed and assimilated, not by the invading Aryans, but by the mature-Harappan population. voi.org /books/ait/ch54.htm   (4024 words)

ejvs0501b.txt Dravidian immigration The observations about the early linguistic evidence from Sindh, made above, indicate that speakers of Dravidian were not a primary factor in the population of the Indus civilization, even of Sindh, and that they were immigrating into the Panjab only in middle Rgvedic times. at Pirak, 1700 BCE), and with Dravidian immigration. Dravidian In the new IA speaking, culturally Vedic "eastern territories" of the Gangetic plains some Drav. users.primushost.com /~india/ejvs/ejvs0501/ejvs0501b.txt   (8280 words)

IS INDUS VALLEY THE CRADLE OR CATACOMB OF THE DRAVIDIAN CIVILIZATION But by this time the Dravidian origin of the language and culture was forgotten, not merely due to the lapse of time, but also apparently as an outcome of cultural elimination. As Dr.Mathivanan had too proven that the Indus script is Dravidian, there is no necessity to question the collective wisdom of all these scholars, yet there are schools of thought, which want to deny the Dravidian roots of the Indus Valley civilization. Instead the cradle of the Dravidian civilization is in Kumari kandam, otherwise called as Lemurian continent and Gondwana land. www.geocities.com /greenpolitics2001   (5126 words)

AsiaFinest Discussion Forum > Are Jews white? The Dravidians were responsible for the Indus Valley Civilisation about 5000 years ago, while the Elamo-Dravidians that remained in the Middle East became Elamites and had their own Elamite Empire in the Middle East at around the same time. In fact, the Sumerians, Elamites and Dravidians all existed at around the same time 5000 years ago and used to have regular contact with each other, as they may have all had similar ancestry. Dravidians are the darker-skinned Indians living in South India. www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t48577.html   (6967 words)

Dravidian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The origins of the Dravidian languages, as well as their subsequent development and the period of their differentiation, are unclear, and the situation is not helped by the lack of comparative linguistic research into the Dravidian languages. Dravidian languages are also characterized by a three-way distinction between dental, alveolar, and retroflex places of articulation as well as large numbers of liquids. The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, and eastern and central India, as well as in parts of Afghanistan and Iran. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dravidian_languages   (908 words)

Elamite language David McAlpin's Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis postulates a genetic relation between Elamite and Dravidian languages, which then would have been carried from Elam to India by eastward migration. Elamite was not related to the neighboring Semitic languages, or Indo-European languages, and although some call Elamite the "sister" to the Sumerian language, the two languages appear to be unrelated. www.abitabouteverything.com /files/e/el/elamite_language.html   (381 words)

biology - Elamite Empire Some scholars believe the language is related to the living Dravidian languages of southern India (see Elamo-Dravidian languages). www.biologydaily.com /biology/Elamites   (812 words)

Irankicks Football Talk - very interessting historical link They were, however, related to the Dravidians and are now classified in the Elamo-Dravidian group. One, the Dravidians are not indigenous to southern India. However, it is not certain were the Dravidians originated in Iran or India, but two things are known. www.irankicks.com /ikboard/printthread.php?t=23924   (883 words)

Straight Dope Staff Report: How come we can't decipher Indus script? A significant percentage of words in Linear Elamite appear to be of Dravidian origin, which could mean it is descended from a hypothetical Elamo-Dravidian ancestor language, or just that it borrowed a lot of words from a Dravidian language spoken nearby. Further evidence that Dravidian or related languages were once spoken in the general area comes from Linear Elamite inscriptions, found in the ruins of the ancient city of Susa in southwestern Iran. Today most Dravidian speakers live in Sri Lanka and southern India, 800 miles or more from the Indus valley where the bulk of the Indus inscriptions have been found. www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mindusscript.html   (3221 words)

3.4. EXCHANGES WITH OTHER LANGUAGE FAMILIES This would fit in with David McAlpin’s Elamo-Dravidian theory, which puts Proto-Elamo-Dravidian on the coast of Iran, spreading westwards to Mesopotamia (Elam) and eastwards to Sindh and along the Indian coast southwards. Among the highest estimates is the 5% to 9% of Dravidian loans in Vedic Sanskrit proposed by F.B.J. Kuiper: Aryans in the Rigveda, Rodopi, Amsterdam 1991. As for the alleged Dravidian substratum influence on Indo-Aryan phonetics, viz. www.bharatvani.org /books/ait/ch34.htm   (6342 words)

Who were the Elamites ? It is not "their" findings, it is a claim by David McAlpin, and if you knew anything about either Elamite or Dravidian studies, you would know that. The very first, a priori, suspicion about McAlpin's work is that he finds a Dravidian etymology for _every_ Elamite word, and that's simply not credible. No connection between the Elamite language and the Dravidian languages has been demonstrated. www.forum-one.org /new-1968485-4338.html   (754 words)

Elamite Empire Some scholars believe is related to the living Dravidian languages of India (see Elamo-Dravidian languages). www.freeglossary.com /Elamites   (856 words)

is it true that Iran is the Land of the Aryans? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community Their languages were related to ancient Elamite (southwest Iran), thus we speak of an Elamo-Dravidian family of languages, which itself suggests, a band of related language spanning the entire lenght of southern Iran, into India. Brahui, a language classified as Dravidian, and spoken in southern Pakistan is actually intermediate between Elamite and Dravidian. But it makes sense, current research suggests that the Dravidians had a much wider distribution. www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=87147&page=3&pp=10   (1475 words)

Elam - Unipedia Some scholars believe the language may be related to the living Dravidian languages of southern India (see Elamo-Dravidian languages). They have also been connected by some theorists with the Harappan civilisation found in the Indus Valley somewhat to the East, but such links are at best conjectural, as Harappan pictographs have yet to be deciphered. www.unipedia.info /Elam.html   (2710 words)

Relationship between Dravidian and Sumerian languages ? You are not able to propose which language is related to Sumerian or Elamite or Dravidian... And thats relevant to the question, since I =was asking both about Dravidian and Sumerian and any relationship =known. And thats relevant to the question, since I was asking both about Dravidian and Sumerian and any relationship known. www.forum-one.org /new-1959984-4338.html   (4634 words)

Language isolate Language isolates may be seen as a special case of unclassified languages, being languages which remain unclassified even after extensive efforts. Neither should isolates be confused with isolating languages, languages in which morphemes generally exist in the form of full-fledged words, as opposed to synthetic languages. A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common to any other language. phoners.com /wiki/index.php?title=Language_isolate   (1744 words)

Learn more about Language families and languages in the online encyclopedia. Language families can be subdivided into smaller units, conventionally referred to as "branches" (because the history of a language family is often represented as a "tree" diagram). Most languages are known to belong to language families (called simply "families" for the rest of this article). Thus, provincial dialects of Latin ("Vulgar Latin") gave rise to the modern Romance languages, so the Proto-Romance language is more or less identical with Latin (if not exactly with the literary Latin of the Classical writers), and dialects of Old Norse are the protolanguage to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/la/language_families_and_languages.html   (483 words)

v03.n140 However, one word is not enough (although there exist other arguments to point to a "Dravidian" hypothesis), we don't know too much on Dravidian in ancient times (even the Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis is just that, a hypothesis --although McAlpin's work is quite interesting), and we are still at the beginning: lack of enough evidence. The appears to be close relationship between Dravidian, Manding (an African language) and the Sumerian languages. There is full correspondence between Dravidian, Manding and Sumerian lexical items in the initial consonants d, l,m,n,t, and s. oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/V03/v03.n140   (4983 words)

Evolution of Human Languages Evidence was presented in favor of Elamo-Afroasiatic affinity as opposed to traditionally postulated Elamo-Dravidian relationship. George Starostin (EHL Project) discussed his work on comparative Khoisan and gave a talk about the position of the extinct Elam language in relation to Dravidian, Eurasiatic and Afroasiatic. Tim Usher (Rosetta Project) presented the current state of the Indo-Pacific database, which has yet to be integrated into the general EHL framework. ehl.santafe.edu /ehlmeet1.htm   (385 words)

The Harappans - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community The modern 'dravidan' languages or dravidian derived languages are, from what I understand, exclusively spoken in south india and ceylon. Its questionable however if one can go from that to a physical similarity between the harrapanans and south indians. www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread102101/pg#pid1039353   (712 words)

Peoples and languages This language, opines Gankovsky, was probably made up of elements from the languages of the 'local pre-Indo-European population and Indo-Aryan tribes, as well as the Dardic and East-Iranian ethnic elements'. The language of the first wave, which remained confined to the Pamir mountains of Pakistan, is identified as Dardic while the second one may be called Indic. These languages have not generally been used in the domains of power because the rulers of this region were generally foreigners. asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/subject/peoplesandlanguages.html   (6627 words)

PRE-INDO-EUROPEANS : Encyclopedia Entry Bellwood maintains that Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, and Elamo-Dravidian languages all dispersed out of the northern Levant hearth area, suggesting that they stem from a common ancestor — an ancestor Bellwood associates with the Nostratic superfamily. The Basques of the Pyrenees present the strongest case, since their language is related to none other in the world, and the Basque population has a unique genetic profile. Their reasoning is first, that the spread of the Neolithic toolkit is more likely to occur through demic diffusion than through cultural diffusion, and second, that a sedentary population relying on domesticated plants and animals will grow much faster than a nomadic, foraging population. bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Pre-Indo-Europeans   (1479 words)

Elam - Open Encyclopedia The hypothesized family of Elamo-Dravidian languages may further prove to be connected with the Indus Valley Civilization somewhat to the East, possibly corresponding to Meluhha in Sumerian records. The Elamite language was not related to any Iranian languages, but may be part of a larger group known as Elamo-Dravidian. Elamite is unrelated to the neighboring Semitic, Sumerian and Indo-European languages. www.openencyclopedia.net /index.php/Elamite_Empire   (3195 words)

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