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To: SunkenCiv

3000 BC would be early Harappan, pre-Aryan Dravidian, I think.


10 posted on 07/07/2016 8:38:32 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Yup, a long, long time ago; the script (which remains heavily studied, but not conclusively deciphered) appears to conceal an unknown agglutinative language, and Dravidian is agglutinative, but that’s not exactly a four leaf clover in Asia. :’) Years ago I recall reading that the Aryans referred to the dead in the Harappan cities as “monkey men”, due to smaller stature and dark skin, a description which might be applied to, uh, some folks in India today.


12 posted on 07/07/2016 8:56:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: chajin; SunkenCiv
It makes sense for Dravidian to be the language group stretching from Sumer via Elam and Harappa to Dravida - the south of India.


18 posted on 11/10/2017 6:30:29 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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