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Ranked: Spoken Languages Around the World

• jelliclesfarm 6y ago
  Tamil has Ural-Altaic root words(similar to Hungarian, Finnish). It is different from all other scripts/languages of south India. Telugu and Kannada are probably more Indo-European than Dravidian. Malayalam is entirely based on Grantham script. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantha_script https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantha_script Dravidian is just geographical classification. Map gets it wrong at least for one language. If not the entire Dravidian category. I suspect that classification would piss off all the four southern states of India. This is close to linguistic blasphemy for that region. On a diff note: no mention of Georgian(Caucasus) and Basque languages. They developed independently than any of the other languages of the world.
  • yorwba 6y ago
    > Dravidian is just geographical classification. Map gets it wrong at least for one language. If not the entire Dravidian category. Their genealogical tree has some other issues (like merging Austroasiatic Vietnamese and Khmer into Austronesian), but I thought the Dravidian family is relatively uncontroversial and a proto-language can be reconstructed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Dravidian_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Dravidian_language (NB. The script used to write a language and loanwords from other language families have no bearing on its linguistic classification.)
    • jelliclesfarm 6y ago
      You are right. That’s page needs some editing.