The Implications of Sanskrit's Evolution

Madhav Deshpande started with the certainty in his mind that original Sanskrit at the time that the Rigveda was composed not written composed and memorized did not have these sounds. But he discovered India the place that contains this m haplogroup as Tony Joseph would put it is the same place that contains all these retroflex sounds. So it is almost like a hallmark of a language being Indian. And nowhere else really on earth there may be places where you think you hear a dirt or a dirt but we're not very sure whether it's important in the way it is in India. In the story of the nambudris and Kerala they always had people with one high language

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