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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)

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)

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. 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. 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). www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/la/language_families_and_languages.html   (483 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'. These languages have not generally been used in the domains of power because the rulers of this region were generally foreigners. Thus the Prakrits were a sign of rusticity and illiteracy as the languages of the ordinary people are even nowadays. 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. Linguistics has contributed hypothetical reconstructions of early European languages, in particular theories on the relationship between Indo-European and Neolithic peoples. 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. 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)

Sumerian language - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia Sumerian is distinguished from other languages of the area such as Hebrew, Akkadian, which also comprises Babylonian and Assyrian, and Aramaic, which are Semitic languages, and Elamite, which may be an Elamo-Dravidian languages. In an ergative language the subject of a sentence with a direct object is in the so-called ergative case, which in Sumerian is marked with the suffix -e. Sumerian is an agglutinative language, in which many small affixes may be attached to a word, gradually building up refinements in meaning and specificity to the typically abstract lexical root. www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Sumerian_pronunciation   (2313 words)

Stalking the Wild Taboo - Miller: Geographical Centrality Of course, for the spread of Indo-European languages, it is not necessary for the original inhabitants of an area to be displaced. This is usually explained by these languages having a common origin, implying that the speakers of the proto-Indo-European language once lived in an area small enough to have a common language, estimated by Mallory (1989, p. Thus, regardless of where the population that spoke proto-Indo European is believed to have originally lived, the movements of the parts of this population that spread the Indo-European languages would have spread intelligence promoting mutations, the more favorable of which would have been selected for. www.lrainc.com /swtaboo/stalkers/em_geocn.html   (13475 words)

Elamite Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Some scholars believe it is related to the living Dravidian languages of India (see Elamo-Dravidian languages). The Elamite language is unrelated to the neighboring Semitic languages, Sumerian language, and Iranian languages. Elamite served as one of the official languages of the Persian Empire, and Susa served as one of the four capitals of the empire. www.peacelink.de /keyword/Elamites.php   (393 words)

Say No More Language revival as a means of identity politics may well be the way of the future. The difference this time is that with each language gone, we may also lose whatever knowledge and history were locked up in its stories and myths, along with the human consciousness embedded in its grammatical structure and vocabulary. The language will withdraw from the public sphere first, hiding out in the living rooms and kitchens of the fluent, where it becomes increasingly private and intimate and frail. www.nytimes.com /2004/02/29/magazine/29LANGUAGE.html?ei=5007&en=c144a14edb46c82e&ex=1393390800&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=all&position=   (4387 words)

Stalking the Wild Taboo -Edward M. Miller- Tracing the Genetic History of Modern Man This is not surprising since both languages and genes are argued to spread by the repeated splitting of populations, followed by independent evolution of gene frequencies and languages. Similarity in languages and archaeological evidence traces the earlier stages of the movement. In the far north of Eurasia (where the data is scarce), the Mongoloid line appears to reach almost to the Urals, although there is evidence of considerable mixing in the grasslands of northern Eurasia as populations have moved back and fourth. www.lrainc.com /swtaboo/stalkers/em_gene.html   (12147 words)

3.4. EXCHANGES WITH OTHER LANGUAGE FAMILIES It is suspected that the centre of dispersion of the Sinitic languages was near the Koko-nor lake, at the borders of China proper, Tibet and Mongolia. This family of languages is the one with the second greatest geographical spread after IE: from Madagascar through Malaysia and Indonesia, Taiwan and the Philippines, to Melanesia and Polynesia, as far south as New Zealand, as far east as Hawaii and Easter Island. The first type of language contact is the exchange of vocabulary and other linguistic traits, whether by long-distance trade contact, by contiguity or by substratum influence, between languages which are not necessarily otherwise related. www.bharatvani.org /books/ait/ch34.htm   (6342 words)

Southasia Talk The semitic languages of West Asia, the Indo-European languages, the Elamo-Dravidian languages, the Turkic languages all emerged from the same stock. Dravidian languages were spoken in Mesopotamia in the kingdom of Elam. We mainly speak two different languages in South Asia, the 'Aryan' (Indo-European) languages and the Dravidian languages. southasia.net /talk/messages/5/1717.html?1084966926   (6824 words)

Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Elamite language Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Elamite language; all previous versions may be viewed here. They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article. www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/?title=Elamite_language   (158 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)

Southasia Talk Dravidian languages were spoken in Mesopotamia in the kingdom of Elam. We mainly speak two different languages in South Asia, the 'Aryan' (Indo-European) languages and the Dravidian languages. I have seen comments on 'Aryans' and 'Dravidians' on this board. southasia.net /talk/messages/5/1717.html?1084966926   (7165 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Straight Dope Staff Report: How come we can't decipher Indus script? 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. 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. 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)

Who were the Elamites ? No connection between the Elamite language and the Dravidian languages has been demonstrated. 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. www.forum-one.org /new-1968485-4338.html   (754 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)

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)

Molecular Clocks and NA migrations. Or, for another one: Indo-European, Dravidian, Mongolian, South Caucasian, Tungusic, Turkic, Uralic, and perhaps Afro-Asiatic. If it includes Afro-Asiatic, then it can't be before OOA, because there are quite a few Afro-Asiatic languages south of the Sahara. = = = = = = Or, for another one: = = = = = = Indo-European, Dravidian, Mongolian, South Caucasian, Tungusic, = = = Turkic, Uralic, and perhaps Afro-Asiatic. www.science-one.com /new-4465418-4248.html   (6077 words)

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