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Dravidian shares strong areal features with the Indo-Aryan languages, which have been attributed to a substratum influence from Dravidian.[38]

Dravidian languages display typological similarities with the Uralic language group, suggesting to some a prolonged period of contact in the past.[39]

In the early 1970s, the linguist David McAlpin produced a detailed proposal of a genetic relationship between Dravidian and the extinct Elamite language of ancient Elam (present-day southwestern Iran). The Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis was supported in the late 1980s by the archaeologist Colin Renfrew and the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, who suggested that Proto-Dravidian was brought to India by farmers from the Iranian part of the Fertile Crescent. Many linguists have found McAlpin's cognates unconvincing and criticized his proposed phonological rules as ad hoc.

This page takes the stands that not enough is known about the Elamite languages yet to make any firm assertions, however the Archaeological record clearly shows that Elam(Susa & Anshan) was central to the Urban expansion, and was linked to the proto-indo-european founding stock.

Dravidian is one of the primary language families in the Nostratic proposal, which would link most languages in North Africa, Europe and Western Asia into a family with its origins in the Fertile Crescent sometime between the last Ice Age and the emergence of proto-Indo-European 4–6 thousand years BCE. However, the general consensus is that such deep connections are not, or not yet, demonstrable.

The Indus Valley civilisation (3,300-1,900 BCE), located in Northwestern Indian subcontinent, is often identified as having been Dravidian.[57] Cultural and linguistic similarities have been cited by researchers Henry Heras, Kamil Zvelebil, Asko Parpola and Iravatham Mahadevan as being strong evidence for a proto-Dravidian origin of the ancient Indus Valley civilisation.[58][59] The discovery in Tamil Nadu of a late Neolithic (early 2nd millennium BCE, i.e. post-dating Harappan decline) stone celt allegedly marked with Indus signs has been considered by some to be significant for the Dravidian identification.

Very remote but recognisable connections:

Tamil

y und
āta anti/not
var wer (he who / vir = man)
koṇṭu quando Pronouns
naan/ēn ani: am/I 𓈖𓅱

atu eṉ vīṭu
அது என் வீடு
"That is my house"
compare Gypsies Odu=That vita:live

aasiriyar Assyr: teacher
aRai + uL 𓂋 à inside
uLLE inside ⇔ al hall
nuzh.ainthaar : entered
avar ⇔ wir=man
plural kaL 𓎡𓎟 all
maaNavi student ⇔ ⲙⲁⲑⲏⲧⲏⲥ mathe maat:truth

1 one (onnu) ஒன்று one
2 two (இendu) இரண்டு second / ir 儿 二 èr
3 three (moonu) மூன்று man 𓐍𓏠 (3rd person) 3 moons ☾☾☾ Ϣomte some
4 four (naalu) நான்கு ? 𒈾𓈖 naul see Uralic 八 bānara=8 2*4 𓏌 𓊖 arba
5 five (anJu) ஐந்து panj 𓂬 (5) vs 𓂧𓇋𓏏 (5)
6 six (Aaru) ஆறு ?
7 seven (yElu) ஏழு ?
8 eight (ettu) எட்டு octo
9 nine (onbathun) ஒன்பது 1 to 10 / 1 不 10 / 1 + 8 八bā
10 ten (pathun) பத்து 𓊪thun ten 𓎆𓏏 ⇔ vit-i 𓂘 pfoten / 10 Zehen 𓍿

9 + 10 pair :
девять dyev-yat
десять dyes-yat

вять ⇔ bathun?

Fish is reconstructed as "min", compare Nem=🌢 𓈖 Mean Menes⋍Narmer and nun=fish in semitic groups.
𓎔 𓎛 𓇋 𓇋 𓏏 𓆛 𓏥 Nauhrith ⇔ Narmer or Filhith ⇔ fillet fi'ish filth 𓊠