Franklin Southworth

Franklin C. Southworth (born 1929) is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of South Asian linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

• South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (2013)
• Rice in Dravidian (2011)
• Proto-Dravidian Agriculture
• Linguistic archaeology of South Asia (2005)
• Prehistoric implications of the Dravidian element in the NIA lexicon, with special reference to Marathi (2005)
• Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory (1995)
• South Asian emblematic gestures (1992)
• The reconstruction of prehistoric South Asian language contact (1990)
• Linguistic archaeology and the Indus Valley culture (1989)
• Ancient economic plants of South Asia: linguistic archaeology and early agriculture (1988)
• The social context of language standardization (1985)
• Dravidian and Indo-European: the neglected relationship (1982)
• Lexical evidence for early contacts between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian (1979)