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2 days ago · Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay, an independent researcher who has analysed historical evidence regarding language. Mukhopadhyay went on to find that words used for ‘elephant’ in the Bronze Age Mesopotamia were borrowed from ‘pilu,’ a Proto-Dravidian word for elephant — this is noted to be “prevalent in the Indus Valley Civilisation.”
3 days ago · The reconstructed proto-language of the family is known as proto-Dravidian.
3 days ago · All Uralic languages are thought to have descended, through independent processes of language change, from Proto-Uralic. The internal structure of the Uralic family has been debated since the family was first proposed. [ 42 ]
2 days ago · A more widespread hypothesis posits a Proto-Euphratean language that preceded Sumerian in Mesopotamia and exerted an areal influence on it, especially in the form of polysyllabic words that appear "un-Sumerian"—making them suspect of being loanwords—and are not traceable to any other known
5 days ago · Tamil, people originally of southern India who speak Tamil, one of the principal languages of the Dravidian family.
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2 days ago · Population composition. The diverse peoples constituting the Gujarati population may be categorized broadly as either Indic (northern-derived) or Dravidian (southern-derived). The former include the Nagar Brahman, Bhatia, Bhadela, Rabari, and Mina castes. The Parsis, originally from Persia (Iran), represent a much later northern influx.
Sep 9, 2024 · Tulu, derived from proto-Dravidian is the predominant language spoken by Hindus of various castes and by the Jains of Tulu Nadu. Konkanasthas and Catholics speak two variants of Konkani. Muslims speak a language of their own that is derived from Tulu as well as Malayalam.
