An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link THE Washington Post reports today that linguists have discovered a handful of "ultraconserved" words, some 15,000 years old. These are said to ...

Even today, these two schools of thought continue to thrive in the Tamil intellectual space. The idea of a Proto-Dravidian language has gained traction beyond Tamil Nadu. In contrast, the notion that ...

Scientists studying a primitive tribe in India have uncovered a genetic signature previously unknown in Indian genomes that traces back to early Dravidian-speaking people from the Iranian plateau, ...

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