BRAHVI LANG Origin of Brahvi Language Brahvi is one of the oldest languages of the Indian Sub-continent and brahvi

speaking people are found in Balochistan, Sindh, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Iran. There are many theories about the origin of brahvi language. Some people claim that brahvi is an Aryan language others say that it is a Turko-Iranian language. Intellectuals also say that the traces of brahvi language have been found in the remainants fo Mohenjo Daro and it has Dravadian origin and same language is being spoken in some parts of India and Sri Lanka. Now we throw light on different theories: 1. Brahvi is an Aryan Language Sir Dennis Bray (I.C.S) who served as Civil Servant in Balochistan had submitted some theories about the origin of brahvi language. One of the said theories was that when the Greeks occupied the Khurasan and Balochistan, the brahvi speaking people were living in the valley of Hilmand and brahvis were calling the same valley as Baroyana and same name was changed as Brahvi or Brohi. 2. Brahvi is One Clan of the Hundred Balochi Clans Renowned historians Mir Gul Khan Naseer and Malik Saleh Muhammad Lehri are of the view that Brahvis belong to a clan of those Balochs who migrated earlier than other Baloch clans. They were settled near the mountains range of 'Al-Burz. Accordingly Al-Burz was renamed as Burz Kohi and with span of time same mountainous range was called Brahvi or Brohi. Professor Nadir Qambrani in an essay has written that some materials have been explored from Nad Ali and Bagram (Afghanistan) which include coins and images of gods of mountains are inscribed on the same coins and following words were written around those idols in Khuroshthi Script Maha Rajasa, Rajadha Raja Sa, Dawa Pothrasa Kajola, Kafuzasa. If we change these words into brahvi, certainly a brahvi understands these words.

3. Views of Noor Muhammad Perwana Father of brahvi language Late Noor Muhammad Perwana has submitted his opinion in his essay Brahvi Culture that brahvi speaking people belong to Dravadian race or not but it is certain that they belong to different races than Baloch and Pashtun. In another para he says that brahvi language may belong to Dravadian language but some brahvi also speak Balochi. He has concluded that brahvi is a compound civilization. 4. Brahvi Language is a Dravadian Language Dr. Trump, Sir Dennis Bray, Coldwell and Kamil-ul-Qadri are of the opinion that there is similarities between brahvi and Indian language of Tilgo, Milyalam, Tamil, Gota Malyalam. English scholars support this idea on grounds that composition of words of Dravadian and brahvi language have similarities. Dr. Abdul Rehman Brahvi, Dr. Abdul Razzaq Sabir, Dr. Javed Akhtar and Dr. Nazeer Shakir support the ideas that brahvi is a Dravadian language and there is no doubt in this theory. Conclusion According some historians Brahvis and Balochs belong to same race Balochi speaking people entered Mekran while Brahvi speaking people entered from Chagi defeated the Dravadian rulers of Kalat and entered into matrimonial relationship with the Dravadian and Balochi languages were mixed up and a new language of Brahvi was born due to same relationship. Brahui Language Brahui or Brahvi is a Dravidian language spoken by Brahui people of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and expatriate communities in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, and Iran. It is isolated from the nearest Dravidianspeaking neighbour population by a distance of more than 1,500 kilometres (930 mi). Native Language speakers family : 2.2 : million (1998) Dravidian

Writing system : Perso-Arabic, Latin Distribution Brahui is spoken in the southwest region of Pakistan, as well as regions of Afghanistan and Iran which border Pakistan; however, many members of the ethnic group no longer speak Brahui. The 2005 edition of Ethnologue reports that there are some 2.2 million speakers; 90% of those live in Pakistan, mainly in the region of Balochistan. Classification Brahui belongs, with Kurukh (Oraon) and Malto, to the northern subfamily of the Dravidian family of languages. It has been influenced by the Iranian languages spoken in the area, especially Balochi. Brahui language is seen as a recent migrant language to its present region. Scholars accept that Brahui could only have migrated to Balochistan from central India after 1000 CE. The absence of any older Iranian (Avestan) loanwords in Brahui supports this hypothesis. The main Iranian contributor to Brahui vocabulary, Balochi, is a Northwestern Iranian language, and moved to the area from the west only around 1000 CE. One scholar places the migration ?s late as the 13th or 14th century. However, a few scholars have hypothesised that Brahui is a remnant of a formerly widespread Dravidian language family that is believed to have been reduced or replaced during the influx of Iranian/Indo-Aryan languages upon their arrival in South Asia. Dialects Kalat, Jhalawan, and Sarawan, with Kalat as the standard dialect. Orthography Brahui is the only Dravidian language which has not been written in a Brahmi-based script in the recent past; instead, it is written in the Arabic script. More recently, a Roman-based orthography named Brolikva which is short form of Brahui Roman Likvar has been developed by the Brahui Language Board of the University of Balochistan in Quetta. and adopted by Talr Talar. Below is the new promoted Brhu Bsgal Brolikva orthography: bpsysvxezzgfmnlgcttrrdodhjkaiunl

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