Re: Substrate language which contributed sar

From: cjyothibabu
Message: 71467
Date: 2013-10-29

---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, wrote:

[...]

> There has been no Dravida language in the times Vedas were being re-organized,

There were many languages including Dravidian languages and Rshis were wise
enough to borrow from them.


[...]
 
> I don't know whats the work done by zvelebil and others quoted by Jyothi Babu if
> they could not trace what DRAVIDA means in Vedic Sanskrit.

Have you gone through them before making the comment?

> India's agony is there has been no national survey on scientific ground ( I am not
> using term linguistic ) done to understand relationship between the languages
> spoken in India.


Many thing will become clearer if the origin of many ordinary words in north Indian
languages are studied more closely.

-Jyothi 

[Reformatted and snipped for readability. -BMS]