INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Taking clues from a few words shared between the Indus Valley people and the cultures they came in contact with, the paper traced their language roots to proto-Dravidian, which is the ancestral language of all the modern Dravidian languages.

Detailed explanation-2: -Iravatham Mahadevan, a well-known expert in Indian epigraphy, especially the Indus and Tamil Brahmi scripts, on Friday unveiled what he termed as his long years of studies on the Indus Valley script, demonstrably showing that the language of that once great civilisation “was an early form of the Dravidian.”

Detailed explanation-3: -The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script, is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dravidian identification The Indus Valley civilisation (2, 600–1, 900 BCE) located in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent is sometimes identified as having been Dravidian.