Vijay Palanichamy
History of Tamil script
Tamil literature has existed for over two thousand years. The earliest epigraphic records found date from around the third century BC. The earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from the 300 BC – 300 AD.
The earliest records in Old Tamil are short inscriptions from around the second century BC in caves and on pottery.
Intresting things abt Tamil....
Old Tamil preserved many features of Proto-Dravidian, including the inventory of consonants, the syllable structure, and various grammatical features. Amongst these was the absence of a distinct present tense – like Proto-Dravidian, Old Tamil only had two tenses, the past and the "non-past" not like current Past, present and future.
Try to use Tamil words with view of these 2 tense... It will be intresting :)
Another thing is, Tamil is a diglossic language. Tamil dialects are primarily differentiated from each other by the fact that they have undergone different phonological changes and sound shifts in evolving from Old Tamil. For example, the word for "here"—iriku in Centamil (the classic variety)—has evolved into ingu in the Kongu dialect of Coimbatore, inga in the dialect of Thanjavur, and irukai in some dialects of Sri Lanka
If u have anything intresting abt my language, Tamil. Share it.... Thanks in advance.
History of Tamil script
Tamil literature has existed for over two thousand years. The earliest epigraphic records found date from around the third century BC. The earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from the 300 BC – 300 AD.
The earliest records in Old Tamil are short inscriptions from around the second century BC in caves and on pottery.
Intresting things abt Tamil....
Old Tamil preserved many features of Proto-Dravidian, including the inventory of consonants, the syllable structure, and various grammatical features. Amongst these was the absence of a distinct present tense – like Proto-Dravidian, Old Tamil only had two tenses, the past and the "non-past" not like current Past, present and future.
Try to use Tamil words with view of these 2 tense... It will be intresting :)
Another thing is, Tamil is a diglossic language. Tamil dialects are primarily differentiated from each other by the fact that they have undergone different phonological changes and sound shifts in evolving from Old Tamil. For example, the word for "here"—iriku in Centamil (the classic variety)—has evolved into ingu in the Kongu dialect of Coimbatore, inga in the dialect of Thanjavur, and irukai in some dialects of Sri Lanka
If u have anything intresting abt my language, Tamil. Share it.... Thanks in advance.