Ivc Languages Quotes

“An area as large as the IVC would not have had a single language, but at least as much variety as the region has today. There would have been standard urban varieties, and a large number of little dialects spoken in the hinterland, differing in their proximity to the standard urban varieties. The most urban people would probably have been the first to adapt to unstoppable change, while the poor, looking away from evidence of decline, would have lingered in their old worlds, preserving the old languages and culture.”
― Peggy Mohan, Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia

“At the heart of my approach to finding the skeletal structure of the Indus Valley languages is my belief that the features of the modern Extended Indus Valley Periphery languages that do not come from Sanskrit and the prakrits are likely to be calques, literal translations of structures that existed in languages that lived in the region before Sanskrit and the prakrits appeared.”
― Peggy Mohan, Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia