{"id":127491,"date":"2021-08-20T18:19:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=127491"},"modified":"2021-08-21T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T11:06:38","slug":"an-ancient-dravidian-language-link-with-the-indus-valley-civilisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/an-ancient-dravidian-language-link-with-the-indus-valley-civilisation\/","title":{"rendered":"An ancient Dravidian language link with the Indus Valley civilisation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: <\/b>Indian Express<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

A new research paper published in the journal \u2018Nature\u2019 has provided some interesting new insight into the linguistic culture of the Indus Valley Civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n

About Indus Valley Civilization:<\/b><\/h5>\n
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  1. Indus Valley civilization<\/b> is the oldest urban civilization discovered to date. It flourished in the basins of the Indus River spreading across large parts of modern Pakistan, northwest and western India, and Afghanistan.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The civilisation is noted<\/b> for its urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, large and new techniques in handicraft.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Moreover,<\/b> the archaeological sites of the civilization have always been a topic of interest for the scholar since its discovery in 1926.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. However,<\/b> the language that the people spoke is yet to be deciphered.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    What does the research paper have found?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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    1. The research paper<\/b> has<\/span> taken clues from the <\/span>few words shared between the Indus Valley people and the cultures they came in contact with, such as the Persian Gulf as well as Mesopotamia,<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Based on this evidence found,<\/b> it has been said that Ancestral Dravidian languages were possibly spoken by a significant population in the Indus Valley civilization.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      What is the evidence the researchers have found?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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      1. The researchers<\/b> have <\/span>analyzed linguistic, and historical evidence to learn how some words in ancient Persian records match with proto-Dravidian language.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. For example, <\/b>words used for elephant -pri, pru -and for ivory -pirus in the ancient Persian records were originally derived from \u2018plu\u2019, a proto-Dravidian term for the mammal.<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. Similarly, <\/b>several <\/span>Indic words refer to the \u2018Salvadora persica\u2019 as pilu. <\/span>\n