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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South Indian culture (redirect from Ancient Dravidian culture)
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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History of Tamil Nadu (category CS1 Tamil-language sources (ta))
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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