Well. Among dravidologists the term "Elamo-Dravidian"
does not exist. This hypothesis was created by David
McAlpin, a fellow in London University during 70s. His
work is very bad, above all in the
Proto-Elamo-Dravidian morphological section. McAlpin
is (or was, I now do not know) a expert in Tamil
field, but not in the historical linguistic. You can
read any review of Krishnamurti, actually the best
dravidologist, about this awful hypothesis. I have to
tell you that Kamil Zvelebil (a very good
dravidologist, although without any important paper in
the field) said in 80s that this hypothesis was good,
but with the run of the time he has changed his own
point of view, and actually he rejects
"Elamo-Dravidian".

Since Elamo-Dravidian not is a family, the link with
Nilo-Saharan (a very good established family according
to my teacher of Semitic Linguistic) is impossible.

JAAF

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