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The Tamil language has a literary tradition of more than 3000 years. I wish to know whether Tamil is one of the recognized classical languages like Latin, Greek etc. in the important Universities of the world or any organization of world cultural heritages.

2006-11-12 04:55:14 · 3 answers · asked by Sothi Piragasam 1 in Society & Culture Languages

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Tamil is not as recognized as Greek or Latin because not many important contributions that are widely recognized today have been made by Tamil-speaking people. Nevertheless, Tamil IS a classic language.

2006-11-12 07:14:27 · answer #1 · answered by Sungchul 3 · 0 0

Well!!! A classical language, is a language with a literature that's classical— i.e., it must be historic, it must be an unbiased culture that arose by and large on its possess, no longer as an offshoot of an additional culture, and it have to have a enormous and particularly wealthy frame of historic literature. How Tamil is classical? Claims concerning the "Primary Classicality of Tamil": one million. Lemurian foundation two. Phonological simplicity three. Catholicity . four. Tamulic substratum of the Aryan household of languages. five. Morphological purity and primitiveness . 6. The presence of the phrases ‘amma’ and ‘appa’ in practically all excellent languages in a few sort or different. 7. Absence of Nominative case-termination . eight. Separability and value of all affixes . nine. Absence of morphological gender 10. Absence of arbitrary phrases eleven. Traceability of Tamil to its very foundation. 12. Logical and typical order of phrases . thirteen. Absence of twin quantity . 14. Originality and typical progress . 15. Highest order of the classicality . Classical Languages in India: one million. Tamil two. Sanskrit three. Kannada four . Telugu Classical Languages on the planet (rather then Indian): one million. Sumerian two. Egyptian three. Babylonian four. Hebrew five. Chinese 6. Greek 7. Latin * Though the primary 3 languages exitsed along side all 7, handiest the latter four along side Tamil and Sanskrit are known as as Worlds Classical languages

2016-09-01 11:18:05 · answer #2 · answered by cheuvront 4 · 0 0

The most widely recognised classical languages of the world are: Latin, classical Greek, ancient Hebrew, classical Arabic, Sanskrit and classical Chinese. They have large bodies of literature, form the basis of major world cultures, and are taught in many universities around the world.

There are other old languages with significant literatures, of which Tamil is one, but they are don't attract the same level of interest from scholars.

2006-11-12 11:04:07 · answer #3 · answered by Marakey 3 · 1 0

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