Using new linguistic analyses, study sheds new light on the prehistory of the South Asian Dravidian languages like Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu. There are around 80 varieties, they are spoken by 220 million people, and date back to about 4,500 years ago.

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Using new linguistic analyses, study sheds new light on the prehistory of the South Asian Dravidian languages like Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu. There are around 80 varieties, they are spoken by 220 million people, and date back to about 4,500 years ago.