I have previously come across online materials alluding to a genetic connection between Indians and Australian aboriginals, a connection which did not seem very alien considering that some Indian faces do resemble that of Aboriginals in structure. Anyway, what brings me to start this thread is that I saw the movie "The Proposition" last night, which incidentally was a very good film. It is set in Australia in the latter half of the 19th century, it would seem; a time when the whites were pretty much disposing of the native population en masse in a typical Anglo-colonial style. The movie had a number of insignificant aboriginal characters and, for the first time, I heard what I assume is the Aboriginals' language. It rolled off the actor's tongue using strikingly similar accents to those I have heard on Hindi speakers.
Indian languages, although very diverse seem to be spoken with a similar accent, in my opinion; the rolling of the tongue on certain consenants such as D, which I thought was unique to Indians, for example. Well I noted this phenomenon in the Aborginal that I heard also.
I have never heard a Dravidian language spoken and I wonder how much closer it may sound to Aboriginal.
Does anyone have any comments on this? And have there been comparitive studies of Aboriginal and Dravidian languages been conducted?
Edited by Zagros - 02-May-2007 at 16:28