@agenetics1 Not sure if one sound change is convining. Though it is interesting that Malto and Kurukh are mentioned in classical texts, but Brahui is not mentioned.
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@agenetics1 Which seems to favor your theory that they are late entrants, probably from the area where the Maladas and Karushas lived.
@agenetics1 AFAIK, their name derives from Arabic "Ibrahim" and was given to them by the Jats of Sindh. It's quite likely that they were enslaved and converted by the Turkish invaders during the Islamic invasions of North India during the 12th century.
@agenetics1 They may have been sent to Samarkand and other Silk Road centers as part of the mass Turkish slave trade of Indians but were instead stranded in Balochistan.
@agenetics1 I think a better argument for Dravidian being spoken in the IVC, or at least a Dravidian entry into India from the Northwest along the West coast, would be the presence of Dravidian place names in Sindh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.
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