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Article: Dravidian in the Light of Nostratic
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Dravidian in the Light of Nostratic. By KALEVI E. KOSKINEN, Tampere, Finland: Privately published, 1996. Pp. 111.
This is yet another attempt to find for Dravidian a larger linguistic "hyper-family," this time the so-called "Nostratic," on the base of correspondences between Dravidian, Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and Hamito-Semitic.
After an introduction the author offers what he calls "Basic Investigations" (in fact, a kind of preliminary study of Indo-European, Uralic, and Hamito-Semitic), then proceeds to Dravidian comparisons with the above-mentioned groups of languages, discusses sound correspondences and ends with a resume.
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