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Toward Proto-Elamo-Dravidian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

David W. McAlpin
David W. McAlpin*
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Portland, Oregon
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Abstract

It is demonstrated here that the Dravidian family of languages in South Asia is cognate with Elamite, an ancient language of West Asia. This demonstration is based on 57 Elamite words (mostly verb stems) paired with corresponding Dravidian terms. The correspondences are, on the whole, straightforward and interlocking. A beginning is made in reconstructing the phonology of Proto-Elamo-Dravidian.

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Language , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 89 - 101
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Copyright © 1974 Linguistic Society of America

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