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Same with Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam etc.,
by btbytes 9y ago
Same with Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam etc.,
- vorg 9y ago> an enormous literary corpus reaching back to before English even existed Certainly true of Telegu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam. But because Bengali is, like English, an Indo-European language, not true of it. Also, not sure what you mean by "etc".
- nine_k 9y agoSanskrit is also Indo-European, and definitely had a large literary corpus before English became separate from Old Norse.
- mdns33 9y agoLet the regional language wars begin.
- eponeponepon 9y agoAren't most wars about regional languages, when you get down to the nuts and bolts?
- panglott 9y agoEnglish is less than 1,000 years old in its identifiably modern form.
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- gressquel 9y agoTamil is a classical language like greek, hebrew, chinese etc. Its much older than telugu and the other Indian languages. Malayalam and kanada is derived from tamil
- nagVenkat 9y agoCalling Tamil much older than Telugu is probably not appropriate. They both developed during the same time.
- swatkat 9y agoMalayalam diverged from Tamil. But, Kannada is not a derivative of tamil.
- psankar 9y agoOf course Kannada evolved from ancient Tamil. If you know both the languages, you can easily find root words for most current day Kannada words in ancient Tamil sangam poetry (like ooru=>oor referring to town, kaaveri=>kaaviri, etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam all have higher degrees of impact due to Sanskrit but they are all dravidian languages, derived from ancient Tamil.
- panglott 9y agoYour Wikipedia link disagrees that all of the Dravidian languages are derived from ancient Tamil. It describes them as common descendents of Proto-Dravidian. It cites the attested literature of Tamil as being 2,000 years old.
- btbytes 9y agoHa! typical propaganda. Why are some of you Tamils are so insecure about the "antiquity" of your language. I even mentioned Tamil before my own. But, NO!! You had to come here and tell something irrelevant.
- psibi 9y agoDisclaimer: A Tamilian but doesn't know to read or write it (lived in the northern states) I didn't know that it came before Telugu or neither about the fact that Malayalam or Kannada is derived from it. So yeah, it was a new information for me.