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    The Elamo-Dravidian language family is a hypothesised language family that links the Elamite language of ancient Elam (present-day southwestern Iran,...
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    The Dravidian languages are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in South India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan,...
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  • of reconstructed Proto-Dravidian forms at Appendix:Proto-Dravidian reconstructions Elamo-Dravidian languages Dravidian languages Sanskrit Andronov 2003...
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  • Dravidian studies (also Dravidology, Dravidiology) is the academic field devoted to the Dravidian languages, literature, and culture. It is a superset...
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    Dravidian loanwords in Indo-Aryan languages, and vice versa. According to David McAlpin and his Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis, the Dravidian languages were...
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    the Dravidian languages, a family of around 26 languages native to the Indian subcontinent. It is also classified as being part of a Tamil language family...
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    Indian language(s) open until better reconstructions for Dravidian and Munda substrate components in Indo-Aryan languages have been done. Elamo-Dravidian languages...
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  • Proto-South Dravidian is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the southern Dravidian languages native to southern India. Its descendants...
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    Sumerian-Akkadian cuneiform script. An Elamo-Dravidian family connecting Elamite with the Brahui language of Pakistan and Dravidian languages of India was suggested in...
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  • Dravidian nationalism, or Dravidianism, developed in Madras Presidency which comprises the four major ethno-linguistic groups in South India. This idea...
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  • and Western Indian languages are classified as Indo-Aryan, whereas the South Indian languages are classified as Dravidian. Dravidian politics has developed...
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    Dravidian architecture, or the Southern Indian temple style, is an architectural idiom in Hindu temple architecture that emerged from Southern India,...
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  • Pradesh, and Telangana. The idea of South India is closely linked to the Dravidian ethnic and linguistic identity and therefore it can also refer to groups...
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    Elamite. In The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Aksum. pp. 47–50. David McAlpin, "Toward Proto-Elamo-Dravidian", Language vol. 50 no. 1 (1974);...
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    Indus Valley Civilisation (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    the dispersal of Dravidian and Indo-European languages in southern Asia. It is hypothesized that the proto-Elamo-Dravidian language, most likely originated...
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    Afroasiatic languages; as well as the Dravidian languages (sometimes also Elamo-Dravidian). The Nostratic hypothesis originates with Holger Pedersen in the early...
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    The early Dravidian religion constituted a non-Vedic, pre-Indo-Aryan, indigenous religion practiced by Dravidian peoples in the Indian subcontinent that...
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    Tamilakam (category Articles containing Tamil-language text)
    Nadu History of Kerala Thapar mentions the existence of a common language of the Dravidian group: "Ashoka in his inscription refers to the peoples of South...
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    Tenkasi Pandyas (category CS1 Tamil-language sources (ta))
    N.; Vān̲amāmalai, Nā (1981). Interpretation of Tamil Folk Creations. Dravidian Linguistics Association. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016....
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    Elam (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    serious criticism by linguists) is considered under the rubric of Elamo-Dravidian languages.[citation needed] The Assyrians had utterly destroyed the Elamite...
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  • Elamite language of Iran and the Dravidian languages of southern India, known as the Zagrosian Hypothesis. Whereas his Proto-Elamo-Dravidian: The Evidence...
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    Tongue – Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970". Sumathi Ramaswamy University of California Press. Retrieved 14 June 2006. "Is the Dravidian movement...
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    all or some of the Eurasiatic languages and the Kartvelian, Dravidian (or wider, Elamo-Dravidian) and Afroasiatic language families Eurasiatic, a theory...
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  • Malayali diaspora (category Dravidian peoples)
    Malayali Kerala Gulf diaspora Malaysian Malayali Malayali Australians Dravidians Tamil diaspora Telugu diaspora Peter, Benoy; Sanghvi, Shachi; Narendran...
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  • world languages. Map of the main language families of the world The language families of Africa Map of the Austronesian languages Map of major Dravidian languages...
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    the dispersal of Dravidian and Indo-European languages in southern Asia. It is hypothesized that the proto-Elamo-Dravidian language, most likely originated...
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    5th millennium BC (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    European languages from the 5th millennium BC to the 1st millennium AD. Such influence has been explored, such examples are the Elamo-Dravidian languages, a...
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  • Dravida Nadu (category Dravidian movement)
    Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led by C. N. Annadurai for the speakers of the Dravidian languages in South India. Initially, the demand of Dravida Nadu proponents...
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  • Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines (Amaryllis, 2011) is a book written by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan...
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  • (Proto-Elamo-Dravidian), and to Central Asia (Proto-Eurasiatic, then Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Altaic, and Proto-Uralic in 5,000 BC). Elamo-Dravidian hypothetical...
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