Abstract Ever since the discovery of Indus valley civilization, scholars have debated linguistic identities its people. This study analyzes numerous archaeological, linguistic, archaeogenetic and historical evidences to claim that words used for elephant (like, ‘pīri’, ‘pīru’) in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, elephant-word Hurrian part an Amarna letter ca. 1400 BC, ivory-word (‘pîruš’) recorded certa...

south indian language, culture and civilization, dravidian civilization, is important for many of linguists, anthropologists and archaeologists. so, they are trying to find the origins of it. today, the scholars of civilizations try, however, to find any connection between dravidians culture and their own language and culture. so, they attempt to study in this field. it is clear that the cultur...

This paper evaluates the challenges involved in shallow parsing of Dravidian languages which are highly agglutinative and morphologically rich. Text processing tasks in these languages are not trivial because multiple words concatenate to form a single string with morpho-phonemic changes at the point of concatenation. This phenomenon known as Sandhi, in turn complicates the individual word iden...

In this article, author and artist Meena Murugesan analyzes their creative process research in the making of Dravidian Futurities, a multi-channel video installation with live performance. Methodologies auto-ethnography, visual aesthetics, embodied movement practices, Tamil historiographies, queer futurities, caste analysis, poetics are applied to treat issues at hand. Futurities draws connecti...

Indian Languages are Indo-Aryan being influenced by Sanskrit or Dravidian being influenced by Tamil. Dravidian Languages have the influence of Sanskrit also. All Indian Languages have the influence of Pali language for which the graphemes are being influenced Brahmi. All the Indian languages are phonetic in nature. Every Indian language has its distinctive phone sets. North Indian languages are...

BACKGROUND: The tribal communities of South India are considered to be the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent, belonging to the most primitive Dravidian speaking communities. These Dravidian speaking forest dwelling tribal populations have remained isolated from any intermingling with other non-tribal communities. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: We propose to understand the evolutionary proce...