Indo-European origins rank among the greatest puzzles of both linguistics and archaeology;
an issue which has generated passionate debates for over a century. In his recently-…

Lexicon of Tamil Literature is a reference-dictionary of Tamil literature of South India from its
early beginnings more than 2000 years ago until the present time (ca. 1980). It includes in …

Though the attempted decipherment of the Proto-Indian texts by the Soviet team must on the
whole be considered unsuccessful, the following monographs are perhaps the best …

The title of this brief essay is an echo of the title of a book once famous, nowadays almost
forgotten: MS Purnalingam Pillai, Ravana the Great: King of Lanka (Munnirpallam, 1928). The …

The ethnolinguistic diversity of the region of the Nilagiri Mountains (South India) is a well-known
fact. There may still be areas, particularly in the northwest (towards Wynaad), which may …

1. As far as I know, there is still a rather meagre ethnographic literature on the Janu Kurumbas
alias Kadu Nayikas3 and perhaps nothing at all has been published on their language, …

0.1. In my effort to gather as much field-data on as many non-literary languages of the
various tribal communities of the Nilgiris as possible in a brief period of time,'I was fortunate …

1. One of my favorite quotations is the following observation uttered by Kenneth L. Pike:" Life
is more complicated than any logic which rejects multiple perspective."'The ethnolinguistic …

The Irulas 2 are a tribal complex of four tribes inhabiting the lower slopes of the northern,
eastern and southern parts of the Nilgiri mountains of South India. They speak a tribal language …

A positional-statistic analysis (using computer techniques) was applied to an unsegmented
ancient Egyptian text-the beginning of" The Legend of Sinuhe❞—(which was treated as …