To: SunkenCiv
Interesting that the Dravidians share the marker. My understanding is Dravidian is not an Austro-Asiatic language and they were thought to have been later arrivers than the first out of Africa.
12 posted on
09/22/2008 12:58:42 PM PDT by
colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker
According to Kenneth Katzner, The Languages of the World, the Munda languages of India are sometimes linked with the Mon-Khmer languages as the "Austro-Asiatic" family, but the Munda family seems to be entirely distinct from the Dravidian family (about 20 languages including 4 major ones, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada/Kanarese). There are over 200 million speakers of the Dravidian languages but only 9 million or so of the Munda languages.
To: colorado tanker
Dravidian is an unrelated agglutinative language. :’)
15 posted on
09/22/2008 3:26:20 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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