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Indo-European Dravidian words

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1 Indo-European and Dravidian Roots
2 Reversal connection between between Dravidian and Indo-European
3 South Indian words and thier north indian counterparts

Indo-European and Dravidian Roots

Traditional linguistics hold the belief that South Indian or Dravidian languages are a completely different branch of languages from the Indo-European.

With the advent of English in the subcontinent, linguists and even ordinary people who are native speakers of both Dravidian and North Indian Languages have seen what appear to be Dravidian words in English.

Some research into indo-european roots show that most dravidian words have a corresponding indo-european root. How does one know that a word is indeed dravidian and not borrowed from Indo-Europeans from contact among thier cultures? We can show this by picking words that are generally absent from North Indian languages but have a very close sound and meaning to European languages and were also present in early south Indian literature. Some words are undisputedly South Indian because they refer to elements that existed in South India before contact with Europeans. For example, atta = attic. But a word is undisputedly Dravidian if it exhibits the property of reversal. When a dravidian words consonants are reversed and specific transformations are applied to the vowels, the new words becomes a generalized or special case of the original word. For example:

Words borrowed later from Sanskrit, may not exhibit this behavior. Some indo-european words in modern times have retained this property. For example: A paper by a native dravidian speaker proposes that dravidian was the root of all Indo-European languages http://www.datanumeric.com/dravidian/

The words below list dravidian words with thier Indo-European counterparts. Only the words that have a very close sound and meaning even today have been chosen to illustrate the point even to non-linguists.

Reversal connection between between Dravidian and Indo-European

The reversal property of dravidian words are cited to show how a certain word spoken in one dravidian language is the reversal equivalent of another word with the same meaning in a different dravidian language.

The same technique can be applied to dravidian and Indo-European to show that many Indo-European words that on the outset seem completely different are really the same words. Reversal is not a property of Indo-European words, so there are only so many easily recognizable transformations.

South Indian words and thier north indian counterparts

Some words that are used to point out how different dravidian words are from North Indian words also can be clarified by examining the word closely. For example, pani is the hindi word for water, tanni is the tamil word for water. For someone with only a passing familiarity with south indian languages, they sound different. However, tanni is simply tanneer (and is used as such in various parts of South India) which is a compound word from tanna + neeru (cold + water). Tanna is tanda in hindi and neerum is water in sanskrit.