The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across southern and central India and surrounding countries, can be dated to about 4,500 ...

The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, can be dated to about 4,500 years ago, based on new linguistic analyses.

The English of the subcontinent isn't a single thing, as India's answer to Urban Dictionary shows | Culture ...

L ast week, veteran actor Kamal Haasan courted controversy by declaring that “Kannada was born out of Tamil.” The question of which Indian language is oldest—and, by extension, most native ...

Santa Fe Institute. (2021, September 10). Major branches in the tree of language reconstructed. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 09 / 210910172735.htm ...

It is (so Quartz India reported this week) Telugu, a Dravidian language of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states. In 2000, the U.S. had less than 88,000 speakers of Telugu; by last year it was more ...