Sir John Marshall was the first to suggest that the language of the Indus Civilization was Dravidian. Most scholars are Harappa-Mohenjo-daro Writing Characters and Sealsagreed with Marshall. Piero Meriggi, a scholar who deciphered the Hittite hieroglyphs, opined that Brahvi, the Dravidian language spoken even now in part of Balochistan, must be the original Harappan language.