My mother cannot understand my wife's Tamil ( rustic Yazhpanam accent) nor can my wife understand my mothers Karaikudi accent. Having had the fortune to have travelled to Sri Lanka, Eelam, Singapore and Malaysia I found that Tamil though seen as a monolithic linguistic group in terms of vocabulary, it is not. I felt so glad to hear her speak in Tamil. She knew she belonged to the Vellala caste. She had never been to India herself but her grandfather had told her they were from Thiruvannamaalai. She spoke a Tamil which is not spoken anymore in India. A few years ago I met a Tamil granny from Marutius and was surpried she could speak in Tamil. I am a Tamil from India living in UK married to a Eelam Tamil born in Britain. I love speaking in Tamil whenever I can- we speak the polite respectful version at home with my son and husband, but ever so often when we talk to our friends and relatives in some distant corner of the globe, we slip into a familiar street slang and jokey phrases- it bonds us together like nothing else in the world! Apparently it has links to Southern Iran. If he can read about Hindus valley civilisation 5000BC he can learn about tamil. Tamil is one of the oldest written languages in the world. There are, however, substantial differences between the spoken and the written languages. The current writing system is believed to be about 1500 years old 30 different letters run from left to right. Tamil has an unbroken literary tradition dating back to the third century BC. I`m from manchester of tamil nadu speaking about tamil it is interestin to note the dialects of tamil.the dialect of our region coimbatore stresses more on respecting the listener by adding nga(neenga) sound whenever we represnt the listener rather than the dialect `s spoken slow.pulling every word adding a rhythm to the language.but to be frank i`m afraid as a pure tamilian our language though withstood aryan sanskirit, couldn`t withstand english words.because 99% of tamilians,including me speak at least one english word for every sentence.i`m afraid wether my tamil can withstand a decade before it is called as a different dialect of english! let`s pray it doesn`t happen. No matter where You are and what ever language You speak!!( so called circumtances) still speaking tamil gives me pleasure, for the mind! coz every tamilian who comes from tamil speaking parents would feel the same. Muttiah Muralitharan - Srilankan cricket star (Bowler) Tamil enru sollada, thalai nimirthu nillada. Dr.Mohammed rela - liver transplant surgeon Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan, or TAK, - one of Malaysia's richest person Vijay amritraj - Tennis star, hollywood producer. MS Swaminathan - 'Father of Indian Green Revolution' - Agriculture Scientist. of India Chandra Sekar - Famous physicist (nobel laureate-1983). The Notable Tamils include - Ramanujam - the Maths genius CV Raman- The great physicist Abdul Kalam - Aerospace Scientist and Pres. Tamil has been the medium of thoughts and ideas for some of the famous people (world wide). Tamil is my mother tongue.of course it sounds like honey each time i hear some one speaking it. I think that the root language is definitely Sanskrit for all the languages, not Tamil. I do not know whether Tamil is the root language of Telugu or not, bcos there are many common words with Hindi as well just like with Tamil. Normally tamils are tolerant and amicable but if their tolerance and amicablity is mistaken for submissiveness and mischief continued to exceed the tolerant limit then tamils will show their mighty valour. Valour is a quality of fighting for justice heroicaly. ![]() As you people know that bravery is different from valour. This valour may also be seen in the present day tamils' traits also. If vijayanagara kingdom did not come to existence there would have been no trace of hindusm left, as said by Balagangadhar Thilak to our maharashtra brothers.Īncient Tamil people's valour may be observed from the Purananooru poems of Sangam era. Kannada rulers always defeated their neighbours whihc is well documented in the history. But there is unconfirmed reports to sayt that kannada is older than tamil. I have read the history stating that kannada is 3rd oldest language after sanskrit and tamil. They call me "amma" and I wake up every morning to that sweet Tamil word which means mum. My sons learn tamil in school, watch tamil movies and songs and generally enjoy all that the culture offers in a small south east asian country like Singapore. I love the idea that in country Tamil is one of the official language besides Mandarin, Malay and English. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Web sites.
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