Question

The words for “rice” and “ginger” in English and Ancient Greek likely come from an “Old” language in this family. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language family which includes Brahui (“bruh-HOO-ee”) and Malayalam.
ANSWER: Dravidian [or Dravidic]
[10e] The earliest attestations of a Dravidian language are likely this language’s “Old” form, which is a likely source for the loanwords “rice” and “ginger." This language and Sinhala are the official languages of Sri Lanka.
ANSWER: Tamil [or Tamizh]
[10h] One theory alternatively links the Dravidian languages to this Mesopotamian language isolate. This extinct language from what is now Iran is found on the Behistun inscription alongside Akkadian and Old Persian.
ANSWER: Elamite [or Hatamtite; or Susian]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Social Science>

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