Talk:Brahui language

message: Why is there a forced and sinister attempt to link Brahui to the Dravidian language tree based on some remote speculation when no concrete link has been made between the Brahui language and the Dravidian family tree.  Brahui speakers themselves discount such a connection but this article tries to pass it off as fact.  Whats going on here?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.90.130.26 (talk) 15:29, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: because it is what most journal articles say . Kanatonian (talk) 16:34, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

text: Because the overwhelming opinion of linguistic scholarship holds that Brahui is a Dravidian language. If you have reliable sources that argue the contrary, you could add to the article a properly referenced account of the disagreement. Reporting well-documented scholarly opinion is neither "forced" nor "sinister". --ColinFine (talk) 00:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone still dispute the Dravidianacity of this language? If so, please use the "Fact Disputed" template. I have removed the pov tag, as there does not appear to be a pov dispute going on here. -- LWG talk 19:12, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

text: Forced and sinister attempt? How silly can you be? Are you just one of those weirdos who considers Aryans "superior" and is thus insulted by the association with the Dravidians? I swear as soon as you start talking about the Indo-European languages and people, the freaks all pop out of their hole.2601:140:8980:106F:E039:CC54:F294:84EB (talk) 19:44, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

text: the reason you say this is because of rampant islamisation of languages of Pakistan. By this similar logic Urdu can be called a Semitic language Because of overwhelming presence of Arabic words in it. Or Kannada and Malayalam can be called Indo-Aryan due to presence of Sanskrit. But that, unfortunately, is not how classification of language works. ChandlerMinh (talk) 06:13, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forcible attempt to make Brahui a Dravidian Language

message: Handbook of the Birouhi language By Allâh Baksh (1877)
http://books.google.com/books?id=mrcOAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rajmaan (talk) 22:19, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Handbook of the Birouhi language  By Allâh Baksh  

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message: Message from V R Jagannathan - I am not actually editing any of the existing texts here nor am I adding any text; rather I propose to insert here a section here on 'Syntax of Brahui'. Can someone give a few examples to make us understand for certain that it is a Dravidian language? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.207.112.129 (talk) 05:21, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Determining which family a language belongs to is a matter for comparative linguistics. There is a solid body of linguistics literature on the topic of Brahui – its Dravidian origin is well established there, and I don't think there has ever been any linguistically informed arguments to the contrary. Brahui's membership of the Dravidian family is not a "popular" notion, but a well-established scholarly fact.  I know this often comes as a surprise to the speakers themselves – after all, the language has so many words in common with Balochi and there are so many similarities in the syntax. However, these words are lexical borrowings, and the syntactic similarities are the result of language convergence. The Dravidian origin of Brahui is easier to detect if you focus on areas of the language that are less like to change as a result of contact with other languages – many of its basic words, as well as its morphology (the endings that nouns and verbs can take). – Uanfala (talk) 21:17, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be nice to have an explicit presentation of the layered nature of Brahui. Is there a source with some illustrative material that we can tap on for this purpose? –Austronesier (talk) 11:48, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Elfenbein's very readable papers are relevant here. I've been meaning to add a grammar overview and then rewrite the lead section, but it's probably going to be some time before I get around to it, and even then I won't get into much detail about the history and the external influences. So if anyone feels like expanding the article, that would be welcome. – Uanfala (talk) 13:44, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Syntax of Brahui

message: A capital letter seems to be missing at the beginning of the last sentence of the sample text in Latin script. Since I am not knowledgeable wrt Brahui, I wonder if someone could say whether that sentence should start with a capital.Redav (talk) 00:14, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capital letter missing in sample text?