[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

ancient Brahmin Tamil script

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[S0122017]

Mr Raghavan said he had identified a unique pre-historic discovery of a stillborn baby. “The foetus is about 3-5 months old, which I found from one of the urns. Association of fossilised bird bones and domesticated cattle teeth further throw light on the pre-historic domestication of animals,” he said.


What, they didnt even just threw their foetusses in the dumpster like we? What barbarians!

[Gengis Khan]

The Tamil language belongs to the Dravidian family of languages which is completely different from the Indo-European family.Almost nothing is known about its origins except that this language was at one time spoken all over India before the Aryans gained dominance of northern India. The Dravidian language family (Brahui language)probably originated in the Indus valley (modern day Pakistan). It is said that the Dravidian family of languages may be a distant relative of the Uralic family (the the only language family having the slightest similarity with the Dravidian languages).The Tamil language is oldest surviving language in this family. Here is an example of the Tamil script: