In fact, I plow a somewhat lonely furrow in this. What was the language the so called 'Aryans' spoke before Rigveda during say earlier Harappan time? I agree entirely with Razib Khan's case that the Harappan language of the Indus River Valley people was neither a Dravidian nor a Munda language. In any case, the present South Indian civilization is already the product of both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian cultures, and the language itself is completely mixed up with both elements. While these are still assumptions. people using cognate scripts2–5, three from the Manding-Vai script to interpret The decipherment of the Harappan assumptions could be made leading Harappan signs. The Harappan language is the unknown language or languages of the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) Harappan civilization (Indus Valley Civilization, or IVC). there are good grounds to believe UPDATED August 9, 2018. The Harappan language (also Indus language) is the unknown language of the Bronze Age (3rd millennium BC) Harappan civilization (Indus Valley Civilization). 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. There are a number of hypotheses as to the nature of this unknown language: Hypotheses that have gained less mainstream academic acceptance include: The Indus script indicates that it was used to write only one language (if at all). The Dravidian language was spoken by the new settlers in the southern plains, while Para-Munda remained the main language of those in Punjab. 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'"