What Is Sanskreet Options

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Hi Friends,



My classmate is from Burma.......he showed me his language's writing........the alphabet..........he said that it came from Sanskret.........i used to think that Sanskreet is Hindu Religion's Holy book.........now i wonder if it's a peice of litrature......or?........plz do share ur knowledge.........



thank u

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But note the extra 'a' in my post.

sorry, it's all my fault. i didn't notice that a. and thanks for the info.

PS : not to start a Regional conflict in HF but is Tamil not older then Sanskrit??? I think I have read this
somewhere ???

It is said that Tamil is mother of many Dravidian languages as Sanskrit is of all devnagri/norther
languages ?? ( plz not pitai if iam wrong )

good question. but what have you read ? tamil is not older or is older ?
don't worry. no pitaai and regional conflict here. hahaha !!!

wah sonu kya ratio hai!!!!!!!!!!!!! tumhara....... what i learnt TAMIL is too derived from sanskrit

i think you are right. but it's controversial

now coming to the topic,

there are total 73 dravidian languages. tamil, telugu, malayalam, kannada, tulu, bellari, konda, koya ...
as far as i believe all indian languages have one and only parent and that's sanskrit.
indo-aryan languages are surely daughters of sanskrit, even though dravidian languages sound quite
different, the linguistics say: there are thirty to seventy per cent Sanskrit words in south Indian languages
like telugu, malayalam and tamil, which can be attributed to the heavy borrowing of vocabulary from the
elite indo-aryan languages.

kan, tel and mal have the highest incidence of loans from sanskrit while tam has the lowest.
now why tamil has the lowest ? the reason i heard is: during the medieval period and also in 20th
century(by parithimaar kalaignar and maraimalai adigal), a large number of sanskrit loan words were
washed away to make tamil a pure and independent language.
( this movement is called thanith thamizh iyakkam (meaning pure Tamil movement) )

is there any such movement amongst indo-aryan languages ? i guess not.

tamil literature and language can be categorized into three periods: ancient (500 BCE to 700 CE),
medieval (700 CE to 1500 CE) and modern (1500 CE to the present)
and the oldest tamil literature contains: vishnu and other religious stories which again i believe came from
sanskrit language. now when did sanskrit come into existance ? no precise time, let alone the
pre-classical form of sanskrit, the classical and standard sanskrit dates back to 1500 BCE.

still i have doubt. i request wise persons like bibhas and mandi to pour some light.
i look forward to them.

p.s. the oldest form of tamil is called centamil

p.s.1: which culture is older ? dravid or kaling ?