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Pakistan is a part of South Asia that modern humans encountered soon after they left Africa ~50 - 70,000 years ago. Approximately 9,000 years ago they began establishing cities that eventually expanded to represent the Harappan culture, rivalling the early city states of Mesopotamia. The modern state constitutes the north western land mass of the Indian sub-continent and is now the abode of alm...

Abstract Ever since the discovery of Indus valley civilization, scholars have debated linguistic identities its people. This study analyzes numerous archaeological, linguistic, archaeogenetic and historical evidences to claim that words used for elephant (like, ‘pīri’, ‘pīru’) in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, elephant-word Hurrian part an Amarna letter ca. 1400 BC, ivory-word (‘pîruš’) recorded certa...

It was during the colonial rule that India underwent many changes. They enslaved a particular race as untouchables and within population. There were some advantages well disadvantages under rule. Education available only to barbarians made laity, reservations made, superstitions questioned, literary manuscripts frightened. Those listed received concessions. Got opportunity work with english. K....

S. Narayan, The Dravidian Years. Politics and Welfare in Tamil Nadu. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2018, xxii + 262 pp., ₹650. ISBN: 9780199488179 (Hardback).

Apart from Tamil, Malayalam is the only Dravidian language that still retains a fifth liquid in its inventory (denoted as /ʐ/), a sound that can be traced back to Proto-Dravidian. The phonetic and phonological status of this sound has been the subject of considerable debate, both in terms of its rhotic versus lateral status and its phonetic realisation. Studies to date have been impressionistic...

In this paper a methodology for learning the complex agglutinative morphology of some Indian languages using Adaptor Grammars and morphology rules is presented. Adaptor grammars are a compositional Bayesian framework for grammatical inference, where we define a morphological grammar for agglutinative languages and morphological boundaries are inferred from a plain text corpus. Once morphologica...

The Dravidian family is one of the most widely spoken set of languages in the world, yet there are very few annotated resources available to NLP researchers. To remedy this, we create DravMorph, a corpus annotated formorphological segmentation and part-of-speech. Also, we exploit novel features and higher-order models to achieve promising results on these corpora on both tasks, beating techniqu...

Dual organization is a unifying concept underlying seemingly dissimilar alliance structures. We explore this idea with reference to lowland South America where dual organization is common. We have chosen, however, to place primary emphasis on the patterning of actual marriage networks. Our aim is to identify the invariant properties of such networks and, in the light of these findings, to recon...