It is one of three ancient documented languages that arose from a common root language now referred to as Proto-Indo-European language: Apart from Hindi and English, the students can opt for a third regional language. The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. We welcome your comments at ideas.india@qz.com. – Most of these studies of Tamil vs Sanskrit are driven by those influences by communist or evangelical mindsets. 1.Max Muller says that the names of stars and other astronomical terms in Chinese are of Sanskrit origin. They never say anything about migration to India from outside. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Nagaswamy points out “Tamilnad continues to be the Land of the Vedas”, thus summarizing the book’s message. That Sanskrit, the Divine language, is the mother of all Indian languages is quite clear to any scholar of impartial views. Śaṅkara‘s contribution to the outlook of the Tamil temple movement is discussed as seen from an inscription in a Cola temple. While other pre-Aryan languages were happily courting Sanskrit and Prakrit (600 BC-600AD), Old Tamil stood firm in its corner refusing to yield. They all migrated from India. Shulman explains it using a hypothetical Greek example: “Suppose the literature of fifth-century BC Athens had been forgotten for centuries and then suddenly came to light in early-modern Athens. The repository for all the worst linguistics-related content. I don't think it's in the talk page of a Wikipedia article that just lists a bunch of classical languages. (My comments: I have abbreviated IE and OC; Indo European means Sanskrit; foreign scholars never use Sanskrit, but use IE, fearing their Aryan-Dravidian Racist theory would be demolished). When the entity in question is a language that effortlessly stakes its claim to both antiquity and continuity, and one rather close to the epicentre of language wars in the sub-continent, emotions can run high.

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In AkanaNuRu PuRanaNuRu and others, the occurrence of words like yupum (yupa), avi (havis), avuti (ahuti), tun (sthuna), amarar (amara),vetam (vedu), mutti (tretagni) and tavam (tapas) clearly shows that even Vedic Sanskrit did have some sort of influence in those times. My goal for the next few years is to regain fluency so I can read all the literary works my parents tried to push on me as a kid lmao.

But if anything, the fact that Tamil is indeed quite a classical language is understood best in the linguistics community. Like many nĕytal poems, this one also flits from black to white, as if the visible white surface were there only to contain the dark depths. But when it uses another language's syntax to form the way it expresses things, and uses another language's phonology for its sounds, that is really profound influence. They seek to explain their imposition of the ugly invasion-derived patriarchal casteist Aryan culture on the peaceful feminist egalitarian native Tamils by inventing a primeval Tamil Vedic culture.