Classical Languages Of India , what does that denotes to ?

Question

Recently our University is allocating new seats for the course of Classical languages - Indeed my proff said soon all national Universities in India will do so in the department of arts and literature.

Can someone kindly enlighten me in these, please

Answer 1

I'll be taking the classical language paper II examination - Intermediate Public Examinations (theory) for second year here at Hydrabad.

This paper has two langguage 1) Sanskrit 2) Tamil . Taking either one would qualify anyone for the classical language credits.

But in the transcript of result it was never written either Tamil or sanskrit but the credit is identified as "classical language"

Europe has two classical language :- greek and latin , whereas the south asian also has two classical language sanskrit and tamil.

I hope this helps

Answer 2

Classical languages native to India is Sanskrit and Dravidian languages.

A classical language, is a language with independent tradition that arose mostly on its own with literature of it's own and should be ancient, have a broad influence over an extended period of time, even after it is no longer a colloquial mother tongue in its original form. It can be either a dead language or a language which is spoken by majority of people in various dialects. In this sense Sanskrit is not a dead language. Pali is.

Sanskrit is is a sacred language of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. It has influence in various languages in north and south Indian regions including Nepal. It is the earliest attested Indo- Aryan language. Great number of rich texts have been written in Sanskrit from very early times including Vedic mantras.

The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 73 languages mainly spoken in Southern India, northeastern Sri Lanka, certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Eastern India, Central India, Afghanistan and Iran.

They appear to be unrelated to languages of other known families. Some linguistic scholars identifies Dravidian languages belong to a large language family, which include the ancient language spoken by Persians.

Answer 3

I am a litterature student myself. How can anyone say classical language is about the language in which religious scripts are written / printed...

SAMI , wat Ur triying to freeken prove huh, Ur own logic or some funny derivatives of fuzzy logics.

Classical langguage is any language that has ancient antiquity , heavy with rich poetry and purely original.

If U are astudent of history major - then U'll understand India solely interelated with Harrapa civilizations ( todays pakistan) , Indus valley civilizations and dravidian civilizations ( tamils ).

Until the Aryan invasion over these three civilizations - hence HINDU religion , hindu kingdoms and sanskrit was spread.

Until today most north indians have MR12 gen structure that resembles the germans ( aryans ) and completely different from the tamils of south whom merely have identtical gens with the africans. ( because indian subcontinent was a part of africa once ) that is if U know our earths history.

http://www.appiusforum.com/indusvalley.html

Tamil evolved differently and separetly from sanskrits influence.

http://www.appiusforum.com/indusvalley.html

Answer 4

Language is a media of communication. The present spoken languages, used in the media are called modern languages.

There are languages like Sanskrit, Parsi, Urdu, Which are not commonly spoken now but a lot of literature exists in these languages. Because of various values present in this literature they are called classics. These languages are called classical languages. These are the languages not spoken by the majority at present. Several words may be common and exist in modern literature, but the method od expression, grammar is different.

Answer 5

Samskrith is a language as old as Tamil. yet, in many circumstances people in the old Dravida used Samskrith to writealong with Tamizh in Grantha Script. Telugu and Kannada has originated from this way of writting, they're greater prompted with the help of Samskrith and Grantha Script, so they are no longer rather Dravidian Languages. Malayalam might nicely be considered as a greater chaste form of the old Tamizh which additionally regular Samskrith. it might have originated while some eastern Tamizh scholars had to circumvent the Samskrith areas of Tamizh in and around tenth century Bce.

Answer 6

Its a bitter pill to swalow for many as in accepting the fact that the government of Indian has announced and acknowledged TAMIL as the classical and language of India in 2004. You can never get someone whose mother tounge is not Tamil to agree or acknowledge this fact. They will beat around the bush seeking noncense and baseless resonings without a single evidence. ;-)... Its a fact its in the ordinant law aggreed by LOK SABHA.

Indian government is not easy player they appointed the SAYITYA academic to do research on this before announcing which language deserved the classical tag:

For the answerers here please do some research first : atleast on the google search engine, stop posting crap explanations - it looks stupid, please attach evidence or proof of links to support what U say

Answer 7

Mahesha dont talk crap, U sound amature - answer the question or as the questioner request dont waste time - no one is interested inlistening to irrelevent lecturers
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LOK SABHA ( direct documentation), annaounced by APJ

"""The Government will set up a committee to examine the question of declaring any Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution as official languages. Tamil will be declared a classical language""".

President of Indias website: http://presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/palatest1.jsp?id=6
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Similar Question was posr by the Questioner at the educational Universities section and one Uni student gave a professional answer - KUDOS !!!!

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Antiquity, ancient, original, rich litureture and hevy legacy is what supremely make a language classic. It is declared Tamil as a classical langugae in 2004 , due to lack of spoken evidence and rich lituretates sanskrit was only declared that status in 2005. The communication minister said there is no other language that fits this criteria anymore then this two alone - I want to see any man here man enough to say that these two are not what Indian union government declared classic.

I totaly agree that many talks crap and never admitts the truth and facts of relity. huah huah haa

Answer 8

Classical languages of India show the diversity religion in India.

Answer 9

Classical languages ar the ones in which religious scriptures are printed.
Sanskrit for Hindus and Pali for Buddhists and Arabic for Muslims are the classical languages.
Tamil also is one.

Answer 10

sanskrit is not a classical language - its not even a coomunity spoken language and how can there be literatures and rich poetry in sanskrit. sanskrit is ancient no doubt but not a language totally to be classic.

this link below from an american profeesor in bekerly University ( there are so many professorship in USA on Tamil language but not in sanskrit.

http://tamil.berkeley.edu/Tamil%20Chair/TamilClassicalLanguage/TamilClassicalLgeLtr.html