The Dravidian language family, varieties of which are spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, is crucial in understanding the prehistory not only of the subcontinent but of Eurasia as a whole ...

To outsiders, India seems like a homogeneous monolith. Proof? Ask Indians how many times they have been questioned, "Do you speak Indian?" Far from this myth, India is home to hundreds of languages, ...

IT IS rare that Johnson is compelled to respond to comments. But my last post, about the fun parallels in the hybrid development of English and Dravidian languages, seems to have stirred the passions ...

The Nelikolu Charitable Trust, which conducts research in the Badaga language, tradition and culture, has written to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M K Stalin, pointing out that Badaga, considered ...

Tamil - With 5000 years old history it is an ancient dravidian language. Sanskrit - Considered as the mother of many Indian languages, has a 3500 years old history. Kannada - Another dravidian ...

The Rig Veda is the first document indicative of a turning point that subsequently changed the entire course of history in the subcontinent, paving the way for what the latter came to be known as the ...

Few would guess correctly if asked which foreign language has the fastest-growing population of speakers in the United States. It is (so Few would guess correctly if asked which foreign language has ...

IF FORCED to pick my favourite part of the history of English, I’d be torn. There are so many to choose from. Would I pick the Great Vowel Shift, the mid-millennium change in pronunciation that ...

The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, can be dated to about 4,500 years ago, based on new linguistic analyses.