Can you act as a historical research and writer

  Can you act as a historical research and writer and craft a post of around 600 words. use bullet list or numbering where applicable. make sure that everything is fact checked and try not to fluff. provide insightful information and focus on flowing question . What factors do I think contribute to those important changes in civilization?


your task is to act as a historical researcher as linguists. make factual study on Indus Valley Civilization earlier known as Mohan Daro Harappa civilization then your task is to clarify the flowing argument to prove Indo Aryan languages coming from outside to india rather than started within india. indicate sources wherever possible. "Here is no evidence that Indo Aryan languages replaced Dravidian languages in Northern India. Northern India had trade and cultural exchanges so it is entirely possible that Indo Aryan Languages propagated from India rather than coming from outside."

Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the Harappan Civilization, was a Bronze Age civilization that existed from approximately 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE in the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent. The civilization was spread over a vast area of more than 1.2 million square kilometers, covering parts of what are now Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.

The Indus Valley Civilization is known for its impressive urban planning, sophisticated architecture, advanced trade practices, and distinctive writing system. However, the Indus script remains undeciphered, and there is limited information available about the spoken language(s) of the Harappans.

Scholars have proposed several theories about the linguistic affiliations of the Harappans, but there is no clear consensus. Some scholars have suggested that the Harappan language(s) were Dravidian, while others have proposed that they were early Indo-Aryan languages.

However, linguistic evidence from the Indo-Aryan languages themselves, as well as from other related languages, suggests that the Indo-Aryan languages were introduced to the Indian subcontinent from outside. The Indo-Aryan languages are part of the larger Indo-European language family, which also includes the Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, and Romance languages, among others. The similarities between these languages suggest a common ancestral language, known as Proto-Indo-European (PIE), which is thought to have been spoken around 4000 BCE in the Pontic-Caspian steppe region of eastern Europe.

The earliest written records of Indo-Aryan languages in South Asia are in the form of the Rigveda, a collection of Sanskrit hymns composed between roughly 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE. The Rigveda contains references to the migration of Indo-Aryan-speaking people into the Indian subcontinent from a region to the northwest, which is believed to be the Pontic-Caspian steppe.

The archaeological evidence also supports the theory of an external origin for the Indo-Aryan languages. The Harappan Civilization declined around 1300 BCE, and the subsequent Painted Grey Ware culture, which is associated with the early Indo-Aryan-speaking people, appears in the archaeological record around 1000 BCE. This suggests a gap of several centuries between the decline of the Harappan Civilization and the emergence of the Indo-Aryan-speaking culture.

In conclusion, while it is possible that there was cultural exchange and trade between Northern India and other regions, the linguistic and archaeological evidence strongly supports the theory that the Indo-Aryan languages were introduced to the Indian subcontinent from outside, rather than originating within India.

Sources:

  • Witzel, M. (1999). The Languages of Harappa. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies, 5(1), 1-67.
  • Anthony, D. W. (2007). The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton University Press.
  • Mallory, J. P., & Adams, D. Q. (2006). The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford University Press.

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