tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post8116885698901344094..comments2024-03-29T13:05:30.522+05:30Comments on Rapid Uplift: The Beginnings of IndiaSuvrat Kherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172632784780810noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post-91119405181082778462008-10-26T09:22:00.000+05:302008-10-26T09:22:00.000+05:30psI wanted to say that there is a difference betwe...ps<BR/><BR/><I>I wanted to say that there is a difference between the origin of the Dravidian language, and the origin of the people who spoke it.</I><BR/><BR/>i agree. for example a lot of tribal communities have adopted Dravidian as their language but their ancestors (tribal ancestors) probably spoke an earlier language that was replaced as Dravidian speaking farmers became more numerous. so I am not suggesting that the population got replaced when Dravidian speakers migrated just that the language got adopted.<BR/><BR/><I>spoken language is said to have evolved around 14000 years ago,</I><BR/><BR/>much much before that. the earliest Africans who migrated out of Africa 80,000 years ago certainly had complex language. there is a case to be made for langauge being present in Homo even earlier.<BR/><BR/><I>It isn't a stretch to view the Dravidian language family as a language family isolate.</I><BR/><BR/>Dravidian languages have been displaced to the south by Indo-European languages. as i mentioned Brahui is a Dravidian isolate in the north.Suvrat Kherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172632784780810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859094080858570248.post-66372776529104826282008-10-25T22:38:00.000+05:302008-10-25T22:38:00.000+05:30Hi. Found your blog through a friend who'd shared ...Hi. Found your blog through a friend who'd shared this article on Google Reader. I've watched the Michael Wood series myself, something which was both entertaining and informative.<BR/><BR/>Regarding Dravidian speaking peoples and their origins, I wanted to say that there is a difference between the origin of the Dravidian language, and the origin of the people who spoke it. Languages have myriad ways of being passed on: take English in present-day India, for example. British blood in the Indian gene pool is less than insignificant, and it is not inconceivable to imagine that a few generations from now you might have at least a part of the population speaking only English. <BR/><BR/>The problem with research into the origin of languages and their native speakers, so far as I can tell, is that spoken language is said to have evolved around 14000 years ago, and written language as recent as 5000 years ago. So you have 9000 years of time available for cultural intermingling, migrations, colonization, and a host of other processes to have taken place. <BR/><BR/>And finally, I just wanted to mention that there are a lot of languages called 'language isolates', like the Basque language, Etruscan and Elamite which haven't been successfully linked to any other languages. It isn't a stretch to view the Dravidian language family as a language family isolate.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07480720884562196673noreply@blogger.com