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As a native speaker, taking a class is mind-blowing. Sadly I had to move out of town after 3 classes, but I had no idea how sophisticated and well structured th
by naravara 9y ago
As a native speaker, taking a class is mind-blowing. Sadly I had to move out of town after 3 classes, but I had no idea how sophisticated and well structured the formal language was. The colloquial form we speak at home doesn't do it any justice.
- redditmigrant 9y ago>The colloquial form we speak at home doesn't do it any justice. In a certain sense the spoken form of a language is its true form. The written form are rules that get frozen at an artificially defined moment in time, but the spoken language keeps evolving. Another way to look at this is that writing systems are a relatively new phenomena for humans. In terms of time scale, if you consider that spoken language has been around for 24 hours, writing has only existed since about 11ish pm.
- pavanky 9y agoThe written form is also heavily sanskritized. The spoken form of Telugu is closer to other south Indian Languages.