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80% of Australian languages are classified as Pama–Nyungan languages. Are you saying they are based off of an Indo-European language?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pama%E2%80%93Nyungan_languages

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dravidian languages are not indo-european

The entire country of India doesn't speak only Dravidian languages. You can understand where the confusion comes from right? The person I was replying too didn't say Dravidian, it says Indian languages.

Sorry for my tone, I didn’t mean to come off as rude. It’s understandable why one would be confused here.

Dravidian is not indo-european AFAIK.

But no one said Dravidian. Thank you for clearing that up.

Same question: Are you saying they are based off of a Dravidian language?

I was saying this based on what Ive read previously. It seems the theory is more disputed than I remember but it is consistent with this genetic introgression and other things happening at the time. Whatever the case a lot of things changed circa 5000 years ago.

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