Dravidian and Uralian: The Lexical Evidence

Tyler, Stephen A.

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“…Linguistic distance to Hindi in 1961 and 1991 are strongly correlated, demonstrating this persistence. On a similar note, Dravidian languages were traditionally considered native to southern India, but several studies have provided evidence of Dravidian speakers in western and northwestern regions of the subcontinent prior to the tenth century CE (Tyler 1968;McAlpin 1981;Southworth 2005). The story of one ethnic group provides a telling example.…”

Section: Impact Of Linguistic Distance From Hindimentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Capital Response to Globalization

Shastry¹

2012

J. Human Resources

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Recent studies suggest that globalization increases inequality, by increasing skilled wage premiums in developing countries. This effect may be mitigated, however, if human capital responds to global opportunities. I study how the impact of globalization varies across Indian districts with different costs of learning English. Linguistic diversity in India compels individuals to learn English or Hindi. Some districts have lower relative costs of learning English due to linguistic predispositions. I demonstrate that these districts benefited more from globalization: They experienced greater growth in information technology and school enrollment. Consistent with this response, they experienced smaller increases in skilled wage premiums.

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Section: Impact Of Linguistic Distance From Hindimentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Capital Response to Globalization

Shastry¹

2012

J. Human Resources

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“…48 cf. Tyler 1968 andZvelebil 1970, 22. tation, evidenced at a few sites (Amri, Sarai Khola, Jalilpur), and probably supported primarily by a hunting and gathering economy and possibly cattle raising, 69 must have been comparatively thin, while the number of the Early Indus settlers must have constantly increased as more and more preservable nourishment was produced by effective agriculture reaching ever greater proportions. The archaeological sequences show that the new cultures absorbed the earlier ones very quickly, 60 and at least by the end of the millennium during which the Early Indus cultures and the Indus civilization dominated the Indus valley, they must have assimilated all previous linguistic substrata.…”

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Tasks, Methods and Results in the Study of the Indus Script

Parpola¹

1975

J.R. Asiat. Soc. G.B. Irel.

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The Indus script is at present known from about 3,000 inscriptions with an average length of only five signs. The longest continuous text (1400) comprises only 17 characters divided over three lines. There are no bilingual inscriptions. Also, direct historical data relating to the Indus civilization are extremely scanty, being limited to the scarce references in cuneiform texts of the 3rd and early 2nd millennia B.C. to trade and other contacts with Meluḫḫha, the most distant country known to the Mesopotamians of those times, whose identity with the Indus civilization at the period in question is now widely accepted. More texts in the Indus script are, and will be, forthcoming from recent and imminent excavations, and perhaps the excavations that are under way in ancient Lagaš will bring to light the long-expected bilingual, possibly in the form of a cuneiform document mentioning Meluḫḫan proper names and bearing the impression of an Indus seal. In the absence of such a clue, the prospects of ever understanding the Indus script have generally been considered rather meagre. This pessimistic attitude has long been obstructing progress in the study of the Indus script. The very first point I should like to make is, that despite the scantiness of the material, it is indeed possible to promote our knowledge in many ways, and that important results are sure to come from more work by more people. One of our greatest needs at the moment is an increase of interest in the Indus script, and the coordination of scholarly efforts.

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“…(1) above) and with Uralic (Tyler 1968), though not fully accepted by scholars, would suggest an origin outside the subcontinent. The evidence of contact with early Indo-Aryan and its predecessor, proto-Indo-Iranian, 16 Sesame seeds were found at Harappa, one of the major sites of the Indus Valley civilization (Vats 1940).…”

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11. Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory

Southworth¹

The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia

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Dravidian and Uralian: The Lexical Evidence

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

Human Capital Response to Globalization

Human Capital Response to Globalization

Tasks, Methods and Results in the Study of the Indus Script

11. Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory

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