How the Mesopotamian word for ‘elephant’ indicates Dravidian language existed in Indus Civilisation ... Given that the tree’s branches were – and still are in modern South Asia ...

Indians—and indeed Britons—have been mangling the language ever since it was introduced to the sub-continent. In 1886, Henry Yule and AC Burnell compiled Hobson-Jobson , the first dictionary ...

The researchers collected 100 items of vocabulary from native speakers of 20 languages for the study. By using various techniques to assess the age of the language tree — from which dialects ...

Multiple lines of evidence show Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic and Indo-Aryan speakers migrated at various points all across the subcontinent. Prehistoric Indian languages were as diverse as today’s.

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 new study has found that the Dravidian language family, which consists of 80 varieties spoken by nearly 220 million people, was originated about 4,500 years ago.

What's startlingly clear in this rendering is the extent to which India, whose population is bigger than all of Europe, is as linguistically diverse as Europe -- and likely more so, given the wide ...

It is beyond doubt that a proto-Dravidian language variety had been in existence in South India, and most likely in various other parts of India as well, prior to its coming in contact with Sanskrit.