Post by Lincoln on Feb 15, 2008 19:40:27 GMT -5
The Dravidians originally came from Africa and settled in India after the arrival of the Pygmoid Veddoids, eventually occupying all of India except the east which was peopled by the `Naga' Mongoloid Mon-Khmers. They mixed with the Mesopotamian Semites in NW India to give rise to the Indus Valley people. Thus the Indus Valley language was mixed African-Semitic. With the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization, these people moved south and eventually were driven to what is now Tamil Nadu under the pressure of the Indo-Aryan invaders. Thus Tamil is a direct descendant of the Semitic-African Indus Valley language. However, more the more primitive languages of the Dravidian family preserve their African characteristics (linguistic and physical) more purely than the Tamils, who have the highest amount of Semitic mixture.
