A recent publication has provided crucial evidence that Ancestral Dravidian languages were possibly spoken by a significant population in the Indus Valley civilisation. This study seeks to resolve a ...

Scientists studying a primitive tribe in India have uncovered a genetic signature previously unknown in Indian genomes that traces back to early Dravidian-speaking people from the Iranian plateau, ...

BENGALURU:A new linguisitc study on Dravidian languages, based on phylogenetics — a study of evolutionary history and relationship between species or populations — has concluded that the Dravidian ...

The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies is the leading interdisciplinary journal on Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. It carries unparalleled coverage of the languages, ...

The Karnataka government is taking up the cause of Dravidian languages by organising the first-ever conclave to push for better understanding of more than 40 languages. Bangalore: The Karnataka ...

A Harappan crocodile deity in copper hoard culture found in Sonepet, Haryana (left), an ox cart. CHENNAI: Considering the vast area that covers the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), many languages must ...

THE Washington Post reports today that linguists have discovered a handful of "ultraconserved" words, some 15,000 years old. These are said to include "hand", "give", "bark" and "ash". The paper is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The past negative finite verb in Koṇḍa differs from all other verbs in marking subject-verb agreement. Etymological analysis reveals that this ...