It's stated by Japanese renowned Linguist Susumo Ohno . See it yourself in the site Japantimes . If you people consider Tamils are also Indians, all Indians should be proud of this . But the Truth is Indians will be making fun of this along with some 'Iruveda' tamils
Language shows us the history, but history is not so clear and true from what historians study from artifacts. Tamil is surely one of the common peoples language least influenced of the south indian language from Sanskrit the elite language of the past. Tamil, kannada, Telugu Tulu,malayalam are also at same level all intermixed and evolved from the common Proto Dravidian source and all influenced by sanskrit, the language of the elite and those with the kings at some period of history.
The proto Dravidan source is very ancient and used by the common people of this south indian subcontinent, may be without proper scripts.
We Indians are fit to be slaves and always will among ourselves in the name of caste, religion and what not. try to respect and learn from others everything will be solved.
Re: Indian language
by Chelvarajan Sethukavalar on Jun 27, 2010 02:36 PM
It was a two way street Sankkrit was also higly influenced by Dravidian. By the way Proto Dravidian/Dravidian is old Tamil nothing else. This is another way of avoiding the truth to say my language is an offshoot of Old Tamil. Sounds and feels better to say it is an off shoot or derived from Proto Dravidian.
Re: Re: Indian language
by satyaki on Jun 27, 2010 02:54 PM
Sanskrit, tamil, bengali and all languages are common heritage of all Indians.
Let us be proud of them all, without at same time, creating divisions using fraudulent european theories created to assert superiority of white race and stuff.
An early historic inscription in Tamil language and in Tamil Brahmi script, dateable to c.200 BCE, has been found in the archaeological excavations by a German team at Tissamaharama in the down south of the island of Sri Lanka. The inscription deciphered by I. Mahadevan as ‘Thira’li Mu’ri,’ which means ‘written agreement of the assembly,’ was incised on an early historic Black and Red Ware pottery. The last letter of the inscription, which is retroflex Tamil ‘Ri’, is very clearly a Tamil phoneme in Tamil Brahmi script, academics commented. The Tamil Brahmi inscription is also found mixed with megalithic or early historic graffiti marks, which were probably the symbols of the guild, they further said. Tissamaharama or ancient Mahaagama is located close to Kathirkaamam (Kataragama), a famous pilgrim centre for Tamils as well as Sinhalese. Prakrit and Tamil were the earliest written languages of South Asia.
The first evidences in these languages, in phonetic writing, appear from c.3rd century BCE Prakrit and Tamil were the earliest written languages of South Asia. The following is what I. Mahadevan, doyen of the study of Tamil Brahmi, wrote on Tissamaharama potsherd inscription in The Hindu, Thursday:
“Tamils have been living in the northern and eastern parts of the island from time immemorial. Several small fragments of pottery with a few Tam
