Kanimozhi asked whether the minister was a linguist to make such a claim. Participating in a discussion on the bill, BJP member Satyapal Singh said all languages in the world have their origins in Sanskrit, which he described as an "eternal" language.
He said Sanskrit is the mother of all languages, including Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. Responding to his comments, DMK member A. Raja said they do not accept that Tamil came from Sanskrit. Tamil is older than Sanskrit and there is record of 'Tamil Sangam' dating back 4, years , he said. Raja also alleged there was a "hidden agenda" of the government behind reviving a "dying or a dead language". The DMK member said he was not against Sanskrit language but was against imposing any language on people.
Dravidian culture is not based on Sanskrit language, he asserted. This was a debate as early as in , in the Constituent Assembly. We have been trying to keep our vocabulary as pure as possible without the admixture of Sanskrit. Mangulam Jain inscriptions. Image: Wikipedia. According to a survey of Indian epigraphy, the number of inscriptions written in Tamil amounted to the highest volume with 20, inscriptions, followed by Kannada 10, , and Sanskrit 7, According to volume 19 of the journal of the Epigraphical Society of India, Tamil inscriptions have been recorded since the third century BCE.
The report further ascertained that the Tamils developed the art of writing in the sixth century BCE, as reported by the Week. Speaking to Logically, Indian writer P. The same is for Sanskrit. Both Chinese and Egyptian languages are way older than Tamil and Sanskrit. According to Ethnologue, around 7, languages are spoken today, and only 3, have a written form. Adding to the same, history professor Kapil Kumar told Logically that the written scripts came much later, whereas the oral form was already in existence.
It must also be noted that most languages — including spoken languages of today — are harder to study, and when they are no longer spoken, they are lost to time. This argument over languages is not new in India, and often escalates around elections in the southern states. Tamils have long felt pride in their linguistic heritage, and have always opposed the imposition of Hindi in the state.
It is now a liturgical language - the holy languages found in the scriptures of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The first written record of Sanskrit can be found in Rigveda, a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns, which was written in somewhere around 2nd millennium B.
According to studies, Sanskrit forms the base for many European languages and is still one of India's official languages. Source Egypt is considered to be one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and Egyptian Coptic is the oldest indigenous language of Egypt. Written records of its usage date back to BC, making it an ancient language. Coptic was the most widely spoken language in Egypt till the late 17th century AD until it was replaced by Egyptian Arabic, post-Muslim invasion.
Coptic is still used as the liturgical language at the Coptic Church in Egypt. Only a handful of people fluently speak the language today. Source Hebrew lost common usage around CE and is now preserved as a liturgical language for Jews across the world. With the rise of Zionism in the 19th and 20th century, Hebrew underwent a revival age and became the official language of Israel. Though the Modern Hebrew differs from the Biblical version, native speakers of the language can completely comprehend what is written in the ancient texts.
Modern Hebrew in many ways is influenced by other Jewish languages. Source Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and was first spoken in Greece and Asia Minor, which is now a part of Turkey. Greek has an uninterrupted history of being used as a written language for over 3, years, which is longer than any other Indo-European languages spoken today.
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The prime minister's remarks hailing Tamil come at a time when the BJP-led Union government is trying to revive and promote Sanskrit with enhanced funds, drawing flak from various corners, especially from Tamil Nadu, a state which has witnessed strong anti-Hindi movements in the past. Kanimozhi as saying: "Sanskrit is a very Hindu language, it is not used by Christians or Muslims.
So, why do you want to impose it on everyone? Home News India.
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