into Proto-North Dravidian, Proto-Central Dravidian, and Proto-South Dravidian, although the date of diversification is still debated. As a proto-language...

of the family is known as proto-Dravidian. Dravidian place names along the Arabian Sea coast and clear signs of Dravidian phonological and grammatical...

recent migration. Proto-Dravidian may have been spoken in the Indus civilization, suggesting a "tentative date of Proto-Dravidian around the early part...

Proto-South Dravidian is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the southern Dravidian languages native to southern India. Its descendants...

Tamil, as a Dravidian language, descends from Proto-Dravidian, a proto-language. Linguistic reconstruction suggests that Proto-Dravidian was spoken around...

with the dispersal of Dravidian and Indo-European languages in southern Asia. It is hypothesized that the proto-Elamo-Dravidian language, most likely...

and northeastern Sri Lanka Proto-Dravidian language, a model of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages Dravidian University, a university situated...

Telugu, as a Dravidian language, descends from Proto-Dravidian, a proto-language. Linguistic reconstruction suggests that Proto-Dravidian was spoken around...

divided into Kurukh–Malto and Brahui. Northern Dravidian is characterized by the retraction of Proto Dravidian *k to /q/ before vowels other than /i(:)/ and...

Proto-Dravidian Proto-South Dravidian Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-Iranian Proto-Indo-Aryan Proto-Nuristani Proto-Pama–Nyungan Proto-Arandic Proto-Thura-Yura...

in the north. The proto-Dravidian alveolar stop *ṯ developed into an alveolar trill /r/ in the Southern and South Central Dravidian languages while *ṯṯ...

view argues for the development of the two languages out of "Proto-Dravidian" or "Proto-Tamil-Malayalam" in the prehistoric era. The Quilon Syrian copper...

is thought to have differentiated into Proto-North Dravidian, Proto-Central Dravidian and Proto-South Dravidian around 1500 BCE, [citation needed]although...

South Dravidian (also called "South Dravidian I") is one of the four major branches of the Dravidian languages family. It includes the literary languages...

One hypothesis places it within or near the Dravidian languages, perhaps identical with Proto-Dravidian itself. Proposed by Henry Heras in the 1950s...

Some universally accepted proto-languages are Proto-Afroasiatic, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic, and Proto-Dravidian. In a few fortuitous instances...

While some postulated loanwords are from Dravidian, and other forms are traceable to Munda: 78  or Proto-Burushaski, the bulk have no proven basis in...

investigating the inscriptions using computer analysis. Based on a proto-Dravidian assumption, they proposed readings of many signs, some agreeing with...

Dravidian nationalism, or Dravidianism, developed in Madras Presidency which comprises the four major ethno-linguistic groups in South India. This idea...

to as a proto-language (the common ancestor of all the languages in a given family); examples include Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Dravidian. Texts discussing...

that proto-Dravidians migrated to India from the Mediterranean region. A 1975 Government of Tamil Nadu college text book stated that the Dravidians of Kumari...

names of newly encountered plants and animals; in addition, the ancient Dravidian languages influenced Sanskrit's phonology and syntax. Sanskrit can also...

brought it to the people. Tamil, like other Dravidian languages, ultimately descends from the Proto-Dravidian language, which was most likely spoken around...

making this multilingual dictionary. Indology Proto-Dravidian Elamo-Dravidian Dreaming of Words Dravidian University fellowships, The Hindu, Saturday,...

proposes that the Harappans spoke Proto-Dravidian language, and Mikhail Andronov proposes that the Proto-Dravidian language was introduced by migrations...

associate it with the Indus Valley Civilisation. Asko Parpola identifies Proto-Dravidians with the Harappan Culture and the Meluhhan people mentioned in Sumerian...

for Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Chukchi–Kamchatkan as calibration. The first roots the tree to the midpoint of the branch leading to proto-Dravidian and...

Dravidian parties include an array of regional political parties in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, which trace their origins and ideologies either directly...

that the bearers of the IVC corresponded to proto-Dravidians linguistically, the break-up of proto-Dravidian corresponding to the break-up of the Late Harappan...

(2011): 241-274 Starostin, Georgiy S. (1998). "Alveolar Consonants in Proto-Dravidian: One or More?". (pdf) Pages 1–14 (?) in Proceedings on South Asian...