South Asia, reaching from Afghanistan in the west and Bangladesh in the east, is home to at least six hundred languages belonging to six large language families, including Dravidian, Indo-European, ...

The Dravidian language family, which comprises 80 variations spoken by 220 million people across southern and central India and other parts of south Asia, is 4,500 years old, according to an ...

BENGALURU:A new linguisitc study on Dravidian languages, based on phylogenetics — a study of evolutionary history and relationship between species or populations — has concluded that the Dravidian ...

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. This estimate is based on new ...

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 ...

Two great historical discoveries of world-wide importance were made in India in early colonial India: of the Indo-European language family, and of the Dravidian language family. India had long ...

Scientists studying a primitive tribe in India have uncovered a genetic signature previously unknown in Indian genomes that traces back to early Dravidian-speaking people from the Iranian plateau, ...

The family of Dravidian languages originated about 4,500 years ago, an international study has found. The study used new linguistic analyses and advanced statistical methods to trace the origins of ...

The Dravidian language family, varieties of which are spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, is crucial in understanding the prehistory not only of the subcontinent but of Eurasia as a whole ...

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.