Franklin Southworth

Franklin C. Southworth (born 1929) is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of South Asian linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Quotes Burrow (1972) notes the existence of a word for the horse which is found only in Tamil and Brahui (DED 500: Tamil ivuli, Brahui (h)ullī, and which therefore must have existed in the earliest Dravidian [...] McAlpin suggests that this early Dravidian word probably referred to the Asian wild ass, Equus Hemionus, which is native to South Asia, rather than to the domesticated horse, Equus Caballus. Southworth, Franklin C., Reconstructing Social Context from Language ― Indo- Aryan and Dravidian Prehistory. , pp.258-277, p. 268 in ―The Indo- Aryans of Ancient South Asia‖. ed. George erdosy, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 1995. External links Category:Academics from the United States Category:Linguists from the United States Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty Category:1929 births Category:Living people