Which Indian language is rich in History ?
Punjabi
Hindi
Tamil
Sanskrit
Mlayaalam ?
WHY
2006-12-25 07:59:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
While each and everyone one of the 700+ languages have their own history the obvious choice would have to be Sanskrit.
Being the so called "Latin" of the east, many of the main Indian languages get their origin from it.
The Vedas, ancient manuscripts, chants, and names also have their origins in Sanskrit.
Although many will say that Tamil is the oldest and therefore has the most history, to me Sanskrit carries more weight.
First of all the theory is that "India" used to speak several variations from the Dravidian family, one of them being Tamil. When Aryans came with Sanskrit, they took India by storm.
The language went from Northern India all the way to the south where it mixed with Dravidian languages such as Telugu (the second most popular language in India and the Dravidian language with the largest number of speakers), Kannada, and Tamil...
Another theory is that Sanskrit influenced many of the languages of India INCLUDING the original Dravidian languages...
a quote that supports this from a scholarly book:
"This shows either that there were already Dravidians in the same region as the Vedic people, and part of the same culture with them, or that Dravidian languages could also have been early off-shoots of Sanskrit, which was the theory of the modern rishi, Sri Aurobindo. In addition the traditional inventor of the Dravidian languages was said to have been none other than Agastya, one of the most important rishis of the Rig Veda, the oldest Sanskrit text"
Out of the list you have given us, Sanskrit is the most powerful influence India has seen in terms of language.
Merely saying the oldest language has the most history is like comparing the Germanic tribes of Europe to Indus Valley... Punjabi, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayaalam maybe rich in recent history and have changed ( locations and dilect) through time SANSKRIT kept many of it's original roots, has historic evidence and changed much of India.
Infact even the name "Dravidian" came from the Sanskrit word drāvida.
THAT is real history to me...
Good luck finding your fully supported answer lol...
2006-12-25 08:04:30 · answer #1 · answered by A Pure Test 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
All Indian language has it"s status dude, be it my Telugu or Punjabi of Hindi.
We can"t change the fact though,
Tamil and Sanskrit will definitly be the competitors when it comes to richness ,age or history.
But still as mentioned above, we can"t change facts, we can try making changes to highlight Sanskrit, this is due to Hindi being the national language that Sanskrit will try to have made to have the stand. BUT
The facT reamians a fact, Tamil is older than Sanskrit dude, way much older, even before Sanskrits ambasodors arrive, the Indian soil , infact the whole of India esp the prsent day north India to Pakistan is dominated by the Dravidians dude, and no doubt native Dravidians are Tamil speaking souls.
Then again, the fact is, Indians are the real enemy of promoting the richness of their fellow Indian language due to the dominance of the present day Hindi.
2006-12-25 08:25:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The above statement says that in india is mostly Hindi people,
dont be a fool to say that.. if the punjabis ,Gujerathis ,kannadas,Marathis choose to stop learning Hindi, then hindi will be washed out completly, hindi is surviving tats all .
When it comes to rich in History, in world class level infact is Tamil for its ancient quality .
The birth of Tamil language is still unknown, some Historians after the discovery of the Kumari Kandam are saying Tamil language presence could be more than 10 000 yrs old .
2006-12-26 00:43:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which Indian language is rich in History ?
Punjabi --- the Sikh Soldeirs, not the language which holds the History but the people
Hindi --- Indhra Ghandi and Politics, not the language but the people
Tamil--- The oldest Indian language ,having the possibility to be the worlds" oldest language.
Sanskrit-----It"s influence and being the oldest Indo-Aryan language and could possibly be the Mother of all European languages
Malayaalam --- Bacically the states" beauty
Gujerathi---- Mahatma Ghandi, not the language but the Person
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Which Indian language is rich in History ?
Tamil is richer in history than Sanskrit because Tamil is the indigenous Tongue of the Indian soil and the oldest language around
2006-12-25 08:38:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Rich in History ? depends.....................
The oldest language is Tamil
Sanskrit has made a real make over in the history of India, it has dominated the Dravidian land and very much taken a permanent stand in Hinduism, and it"s daughter Hindi is dominating India as a national language .
All these are History.
As for rich History, i rather go for truth and fabrication.
As far as truth is concern it is Tamil, no doubt abt it
secondly Sanskrit ,though it is brought in by the nomads Aryans, Sanskrit is indeed born in India.
2006-12-25 08:17:03 · answer #5 · answered by Ray Washington 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Remember when it comes to such comparison,
It is either Sanskrit or Tamil
Sanskrit mother of the indo aryan Family
Tamil mother of the Dravidian Family older than sanskrit
Sanskrit is is very much influenced by Tamil when it was brought in to India and later during the medevial period ,Tamil was also influenced by Sanskrit.
Both these are Classical languages in a world class status.
Both these languages are the eyes of India.
2006-12-25 08:45:04 · answer #6 · answered by Varma 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No questions abt it - Tamil
Firstly it is the oldest Indian language and one of the 4 oldest language in the world, and definitly older and much native and richer than Sanskrit, the mother of all the indo-aryan languages like Hindi and Punjabi.
Secondly Tamil is not only the having the status as classical language of India but also holding an official language status in countries like Sri lanka , Singapore and Malaysia .
2006-12-25 08:05:03 · answer #7 · answered by Nazir Merican 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
little question Tamil - Tamil is the mummy of the Dravidian languages, secondly Tamil language have it"s effect on the later arrived language like Sanskrit the mummy of indo aryan languages. Tamil language date more desirable than 5000bc, countless the wealthy historic files are lengthy gone mutually with the sunken civilisation that's standard as Kumari kandam or also standard as Lemuria
2016-10-16 21:37:36 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History of Indian Language
The history of the Indian language branch is often divided into three main stages: (1) Old, comprising Vedic and classical Sanskrit; (2) Middle (from about the 3rd century BC), which embraces the vernacular dialects of Sanskrit called Prakrits, including Pali; and (3) New or Modern, (from about the 10th century AD), which comprises the modern languages of the northern and central portions of the Indian subcontinent.
The Indian language of today is broadly classified into two groups:
1. The Dravidian
2. The Indic or Aryan languages.
In this post, I will concentrate briefly on the Indic languages and only one Dravidian language, Tamil.
The root of most of the North Indian languages is the Indo Aryan branch of languages. This branch was passed from the region of Sindh in undivided India. It evolved into two main forms: The Prakrits, or spoken language and the pure tongue, which was used during religious rites and ceremonies.
The pure tongue was and is still called Vedic Sanskrit. Vedic Sanskrit evolved sometime during 1500BC to 200BC. All the Hindu religious scripts are in Vedic Sanskrit, with the oldest form being the Rigveda.
At around 500BC, a more linguilised version of Sanskrit appeared. This version borrowed words from the Prakrits and was given the term Classical Sanskrit. Classical Sanskrit was used in in technical and scholarly works. Classical Sanskrit is still studied in modern day India, with CBSC offering it as a third language.
One of the most popular form of the original Middle Prakrits is Pali, the language used in Buddhist scriptures. The Prakrits evolved into the modern Indo-Aryan language of Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi etc.
The Dravidian language is considered to be of a more ancient origin than the Indo-Aryan language, with Tamil especially being an extremely rich language and the most ancient. Tamil is the one of the four oldest language in the world; the others being Sanskrit, Greek and Latin. Among them Tamil is the only language which has the same grammar structure today as it had in the ancient times and uses the same words today as the ancient times. This makes Tamil the oldest living ancient language.
Tamil also has the oldest grammar book known today. It was written by written by Agasthiya’s disciple, Tholkaapiyar, nearly 5000 years ago. This book is called Tholkaapiyam, after its author. Agasthiya was the originator of Tamil.
Tamil literature is broken down into three era’s or Sangams (academic gathering of poets and writers). The sangam era has been permanently lost to us. The second sangam was that of Tholkaapiyar. Modern Tamil history is widely considered to have originated from the third sangam.
The crown jewel of Tamil literature is the thirukural or more commonly known as the kural. This are a collection of 1300 couplets which are divided into three sections. The kural talks about the code of ethics re are highly secular and independent in nature, with every single kural being valid today as it was 2000 years ago. The kural were composed by Thiruvalluvar and thus derived its name from the author.
2006-12-25 09:56:26 · answer #9 · answered by ash 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Definitly no place for Hindi, the national language status of hindi now is merely a luck and having Hindi as the national language isnt of much to show off coz it is a young language .
Unlike Sanskrit or Tamil
Btw Sanskrit and Tamil, Tamil is way much older than Sanskrit, coz Samskrit is the language of the intruders Aryans,
so wat if the vedas are written in Sanskrit, who know what frauds the aryans did .
Definitly the vedas must be wriiten by the araysn with influnce of the native Dravidians
2006-12-25 08:10:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anita Vasanth 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋