Dravidian (Tamil) is the language of the Indus Valley Writing by Clyde Winters

Author:Clyde Winters [Winters, Clyde]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six: Dravidian is the language of the Indus Writing

Dravidians have their own tradition of writing[1]. It would appear that the Dravidians introduced writing to

the Indus Valley[2-6]. They continued to use this writing on their pottery in South India [7-8] and later

punchmarked coins. This is supported by the discovery of writing in South India dating back to before 600

BC [2].

In a recent paper Srinivasan, Joseph and Harikumar [1] argue that the Indus Valley writing was a syllabic

multilingual writing system. Although this is their contention it appears that the writing system used in the

Indus Valley was also employed in South India and that languageof the Indus Valley script was Tamil [2-4].

They argue that the Indus Valley seals were ‘flash cards’ used by the Indus Valley population to learn the

writing systems[1].

In support of the theory of Srinivasan, Joseph and Harikumar [1] believe they can demonstrate the

multilingual nature of the Indus Valley writing by discussing Indus Valley consonants and vowels without

describing how they deciphered the language [1]; and they imply that ancient Dravidians wrote in Brahmi

and Kharosthi eventhough Tamili inscriptions are must older than these writing systems[2]. The fact that

Srinivasan, Joseph and Harikumar [1] make these claims without explaining their decipherment makes these

claims totally invalid. In this paper we will review the evidence that the Indus Valley writing was written in

Dravidian, and that there were probably no Aryan speakers in the Indus Valley.

Results

The Indus Valley writing was written in Tamil, a Dravidian language [2-5]. It was assumed that the Indus Valley writing was written in a Dravidian language because of the presence of Dravidian speakers of Brahui

in the Indus Valley.

The Dravidian people originated in Africa [9-18], they belonged to the C-Group culture of Nubia [19].

The Dravidian people were Proto-Saharan people [20]. The Proto-Saharans were the ancestors of the

Dravidian, Elamite and Sumerian people [20,22]. These Proto-Saharans shared a common system of writing

which first appeared on the pottery, and later evolved into syllabic writing system.

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