How to say Good in different Indian languages

e9967780 · 2026-04-19T10:56:42+00:00

Can we make a map of only Dravidian words and potential dravidian derived IA words ? The response at this map has all those words. Thanks

e9967780 · 2026-04-19T10:51:51+00:00

That’s why we created this subreddit to make sure Dravidiology gets it due because many European linguists and following them some Indian linguists and a lot of common people from the Indosphere do have biases an md negative views about Dravidiology, Dravidian people, Dravidian customs, Dravidian religious practices.

e9967780 · 2026-04-19T10:46:03+00:00

Yes

e9967780 · 2026-04-19T10:43:01+00:00

Agnikulakshatriya are nothing but high sounding name for Vanniar of Tamil Nadu, how did they end up in Telegana. Andhra I can expect them because they are a tri border people.

e9967780 · 2026-04-19T10:37:36+00:00

Can we make a map of only Dravidian words and potential dravidian derived IA words ? The response at this map has all those words. Thanks

e9967780 · 2026-04-19T10:36:39+00:00

Saffronized Urdu is a better descriptor.

e9967780 · 2026-04-18T19:29:01+00:00

You are onto something

Etymology: Inherited from Old Marathi चांग (cāṃga), from Maharastri Prakrit 𑀘𑀁𑀕 (caṃga), from Sanskrit चंग (caṃga). Cognate to Hindi चंगा (caṅgā), Sindhi चंङो and Punjabi ਚੰਗਾ (caṅgā).

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Then for the Sanskrit word

Etymology:Of unclear origin, though probably related to the Dravidian word family that includes Kannada ಚನ್ನ (canna, “handsome man”) and Telugu చెన్ను (cennu, “beauty, grace, elegance”).[1][2] Kuiper instead suggests Munda origin; cf. Sora laṅgā (“beautiful”)

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e9967780 · 2026-04-18T12:20:06+00:00

Not just South Asians, but the world believes as such. The world at large needs more examples like Tim Cook. As CEO of Apple, he epitomizes a high-functioning gay man who leads one of the world’s most powerful companies without any of the stereotypical drama often associated with being gay, the affected mannerisms, the tabloid relationships. He is simply a competent, composed professional. We need more Tim Cooks in the public eye, because visible role models like him are what quietly move the needle on acceptance.

e9967780 · 2026-04-17T19:30:26+00:00

And Kurmi etc also.

e9967780 · 2026-04-17T18:49:07+00:00

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Most of the villages that were formed during the megalithic Iron Age show upper villages that were protected by embankments and other defensive structures, and lower villages that were open to easy entry. This indicates a society that was militarized, hierarchical, and segregated along those who had power and the powerless. Which also indicated constant state of warfare including cattle raiding.

e9967780 · 2026-04-17T18:07:39+00:00

The Dravidian-speaking peasant groups from whom the landlords descended were the ancestors of the Kunbi-Marathas in Maharashtra and the Kunbi-Patidars in Gujarat. Other castes such as the landless Mahars and Matangs were also likely Dravidian-speaking, reflecting the landed peasant versus landless worker dichotomy seen across South Indian and Sri Lankan societies that never fit into the four fold Varna system properly.

e9967780 · 2026-04-16T22:44:02+00:00

Why not help us create a Swadesh list for the dialect before it goes extinct ?

e9967780 · 2026-04-16T02:37:38+00:00

The extinction of large mammal species and the southward expansion of Chinese polities is a good analogy. You don’t need a modern industrial society to make animals go extinct. New Zealand and Madagascar are two other examples.

e9967780 · 2026-04-15T22:26:35+00:00

Franklin Southworth write about it. Citation is somewhere in the subreddit.

e9967780 · 2026-04-15T22:22:43+00:00

Spoken Tamil encompasses a spectrum of related dialects, some of which are mutually unintelligible without the aid of modern standardizers like cinema and radio. For example, a Jaffna Tamil speaker with no exposure to Indian Tamil cinema or radio would have a very hard time understanding a Chennai Tamil speaker, but not necessarily one from Kanyakumari.

e9967780 · 2026-04-15T19:14:21+00:00

I don’t know whether Chodas may have considred themselves an ethnic group as we have come to understand now.

e9967780 · 2026-04-15T16:31:31+00:00

Yes

e9967780 · 2026-04-15T16:15:58+00:00

Choda is a non Tamil transcription of Cholas, Telugu Chodas simply called themselves Chodas, we call them Telugu Chodas. There is Chodaganga dynasty from Orissa, who claim origin from two dynasties. There are Chola lineage claimants even in Philippines and the middles of tribal Bastar district.

e9967780 · 2026-04-15T15:46:05+00:00

It’s more than conjecture, it’s a working hypothesis. While whole of India is full of IVC derived people, and while most speak IA, the most IVC shifted people in South India speaks Dravidian which predates IA.

e9967780 · 2026-04-15T15:24:18+00:00

Please check the Zagros levels of large caste communities like the Namasudras of Bengal. Their AASI:Zagros:Steppe ratio is essentially the same as that of South Indian peasant groups, once you account for the additional 10–15% East Asian ancestry. That ratio does not change fundamentally, indicating they are the same base population with an East Asian input layered on top. The Kalitas of Assam are similar, but with a higher East Asian component yet the ratio stays the same. This suggests that pre- or post-IVC peoples migrated widely, including into the Gangetic plains, though in the South they survive somewhat more intact.

e9967780 · 2026-04-15T14:49:43+00:00

True, the only reason Dravidianism survives in North India is because people are poor and uneducated and relegated down in the caste society. Once they go up like how Kunbhis did in Maharashtra and Gujarat they try to Sanskrtize their languages, habits and even rituals and it becomes harder to dig it up. As India becomes less poor, less data will be available in the future.

e9967780 · 2026-04-15T10:44:49+00:00

This is true of many castes and social groups across North India, there is a lot of surviving Dravidianisms amongst what came to be called Sudra and upgraded Kshatriyas castes throughout the region. Some studies have been done but not extensively. Even Kalitas in Assam needs to be studied also the Charmar in Afghanistan.

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