The ancestral Dravidian languages, related to ancient Elamite of Iran, originated west of the Indus valley and probably spread through there into peninsular India during the 3rd millennium
BCE
, the period of the Indus Valley civilization. Relationships between the Dravidian and Indo‐Aryan languages are also informative about Dravidian prehistory.
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