The fascinating point about India is that the south Indian languages (likeTamil) are not Indo-European. In other words, Hindi is related to English, Greek and French but is totally unrelated to Tamil. North Indians visiting Madras (in the south) are as baffled by Tamil as a foreigner would...
The Philippines’ linguistic environment has also been influenced by immigrant communities. Major immigrant languages include Sindhi (20,000 speakers),Japanese(2,900), Indonesian (2,580), Hindi (2,420), and German (960), as well as Arabic, Malay, Vietnamese, Korean, Tamil, and several forms...
Nevertheless, a study conducted in India suggested that every Indian in India knows how to speak Tamil whereas not all Indians in Malaysia can communicate with their friends orfamily using Tamil. Thus, it is apparent that we will soon end up with only one or two languages if we do not ...
The geographic position of these languages doubtless contributed to these losses: Sinhalese coexists with Tamil, Assamese is surrounded by Tibeto-Burman languages, and Kashmiri is on the border of the Iranian area. New Indo-Aryan shows evidence of early dialect distribution; this is discernible by ...
Tamil is one of the world’s oldest languages. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages in the Constitution of India, as well as being spoken in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and elsewhere around the world. Altogether, it has around 88 million speakers, 75 million of whom speak it natively. ...
Learning a language like Chinese is an amazing process, and every stage of it can be very fulfilling, let alone your progress. As China continues to surge, learning Chinese is not only one of the best ways to get a closer look of this superpower, but also a bridge to the East....
Tribal Languages of Kerala 6 The –i suffix also has a similar usage. appey nii iŋku baa baavey niiŋka barii 'father come here' 'brother-in-law come' The commonly used negator of Adiya speech is –kaani, which is not attested in Malayalam and Tamil. ii kulli ...
The geographic position of these languages doubtless contributed to these losses: Sinhalese coexists with Tamil, Assamese is surrounded by Tibeto-Burman languages, and Kashmiri is on the border of the Iranian area. New Indo-Aryan shows evidence of early dialect distribution; this is discernible by ...
Nowadays, Pallar Tamil may be roughly classified as aSouthern Tamil dialect with some features very similar to Ceylon Tamil.It seems to have preserved only very few features of non-Tamil or pre-Tamil linguistic material.X. LANGUAGES OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA1. GENERALJoseph Robinson Cooke, Pronominal ...
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