pockets elsewhere in South Asia. Dravidian is first attested in the 2nd century BCE, as inscriptions in Tamil-Brahmi script on cave walls in the Madurai and
Mahadevan, Kamil Zvelebil, and Asko Parpola have argued that the script had a relation to a Dravidian language. By 1977 at least 2,906 inscribed objects with legible
or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. The Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems. They are used throughout