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^Tamil Literature Society, Tamil Culture10, Academy of Tamil Culture, 1963 [2008-11-25], （原始內容存檔於2022-06-09）, ... together with the evidence of archaeology would seem to suggest that the original Dravidian-speakers entered India from Iran in the fourth millennium BC ...
