Dravidians, North and South
This talk traces the migrations into and within South Asia that created and spread populations of speakers of Dravidian languages. With the help of a model of language migration and mixture it ventures to speculate about the southward movement of these languages, something missing from the literature. The story of Dakkhini, another language sparked by a southward movement of male population, shows the same processes of language fusion at work in more recent times, and suggests strong similarities with the mysterious southward dispersal of Indus Valley population about 4000 years in the past.
