?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=An+apparent+sprinkling+of+Altaic+words+in+a+Dravidian+language+(Kannada).+Possible+historical+significance+for+South+Asia&rft.creator=Chandrasekhar%2C+Professor+Sosale&rft.subject=Historical+Linguistics&rft.description=Modern+Kannada%2C+a+Dravidian+language+of+great+antiquity%2C+possesses+several+words+which+bear+a+striking+similarity%2C+in+sound+and+meaning%2C+to+words+in+modern+Turkish.+Another+apparent+common+feature+is+%E2%80%98agglutination%E2%80%99%2C+with+several+suffixes+being+nearly+identical+in+the+two+languages.+These+may+indicate+that+early+Altaic+(the+basis+of+Turkish)+was+spoken+in+the+Indian+sub-continent+prior+to+the+arrival+of+the+Indo-Iranian+peoples.+It+appears+that+the+languages+of+the+sub-continent+may+have+evolved+from+early+forms+of+Altaic%2C+Indo-Iranian+and+Dravidian.+If+borne+out+by+further+study%2C+these+preliminary+findings+would+be+of+immense+significance+to+the+cultural+and+linguistic+history+of+the+south+Asian+region.&rft.date=2006&rft.type=Other&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5452%2F1%2FSC-Cog.pdf&rft.identifier=++Chandrasekhar%2C+Professor+Sosale++(2006)+An+apparent+sprinkling+of+Altaic+words+in+a+Dravidian+language+(Kannada).+Possible+historical+significance+for+South+Asia.+++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5452%2F