Dear Prof. Hart,

 

It was Prof. Kevin M. Ryan who mentioned Proto-South-Dravidian but that was in the context of a certain variety of ER and not SSR.

 

Tracing back /reconstructing metrical features in terms of proto forms is a challenging task.

 

There was no discussion on those lines at least in this thread.

 

Bh. Krishnamurti places Telugu in a newly formed southern-central sub-family in his recent book.

 

But that is not related to this thread.

 

Thanks for joining the interesting discussion.

 

I know that you like it.

 

Regards,

 

Nagaraj

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