Asko Parpola Proto-Dravidian (the ancestor of all known Dravidian languages) was probly spoken by … (PDF) Dravidian is the language of the Indus writing | Clyde Winters - Academia.edu The Indus Valley writing is not a multilingual system of writing. EJVS 5,1, Aug. 1999, 1-67, Indo-Iranian presence is likely only from the, The language or languages of the Indus civilization, "Peoples and languages in pre-islamic Indus valley", Sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilisation, Inventions of the Indus Valley Civilisation, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harappan_language&oldid=998921872, Language articles with unreferenced extinction date, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, One hypothesis places it in the vicinity of, a "lost phylum", i.e. For the purpose of the present paper, it will be as­ sumed that the Harappan language was a form of Drav~dian and that the Indus Script ioncJ'"