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- The link between the Harappan language and the Dravidians is controversial. One theory holds that the Harappans used a sign language that is not alphabet-based, as in Sanskrit, whereas others maintain that the Harappan language is close to the Dravidian language. The proto-Dravidian language was placed at the scene of the Harappan culture.
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Aug 19, 2021 · Joseph explained that the statement made by the recent paper on Dravidian languages being spoken in the Harappan civilisation, “is in conformity with the latest genetic study which revealed that some of the Harappan migrants whose ancient DNA had been recovered from the Indus Periphery ‘carried the Y-chromosome haplogroup H1a1d2 which today ...
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Aug 3, 2021 · In the absence of any deciphered written documents of IVC, we have no direct way of identifying Harappan languages.
- Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay
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- 2021
A 2021 research paper published in Nature clarifies that Proto-Dravidian was spoken in Indus Valley based on the ultraconserved Dravidian tooth-word and genetics. A "language isolate", i.e. a language with no living continuants (or perhaps a last living reflex in the moribund Nihali language).
Linguist Asko Parpola writes that the Indus script and Harappan language are "most likely to have belonged to the Dravidian family". Parpola led a Finnish team in investigating the inscriptions using computer analysis.
Dravidian is one of the primary language families in the Nostratic proposal, which would link most languages in North Africa, Europe and Western Asia into a family with its origins in the Fertile Crescent sometime between the Last Glacial Period and the emergence of Proto-Indo-European 4,000–6,000 BCE. However, the general consensus is that ...
Aug 19, 2021 · Aug 19, 2021. --- ENDS ---. An independent researcher analysed the archaeological, linguistic, and historical evidence to suggest the possibility of the ancient civilisation speaking the ancestral Dravidian language.
May 23, 2018 · The proto-Dravidian language was placed at the scene of the Harappan culture. The prominent language groups of the Dravidians today are Brahue in the north, Gonds in north and central India, Kannadigan in Karnataka and Maharastra, Malayali in Kerala, Tamil in the South, and Telugu in Andhra Pradesh.
