Which Indian language legacy and structure is not Influenced by sanskrit at all ?

Question

This is the quiz question from my literature class - can anyone kindly please help me

Answer 1

Tamil.

" The origins of Tamil are unknown, but are independent of Sanskrit."

Answer 2

It is Tamil. Because it exsisted even before sanskrits influence on the south from the north Indo-aryans after the Indus valley civilization. Tamil is also beleived to be be the actual native language of orginal India which are the ancient dravidians. Its just before the Aryan invasion on the harrapa civilization. Todays writting scripts of tamil may be only a few mellinia old but the spoken language Tamil, is a world reserve UNESCO with classic TAG and recently in India as well.

The Andaman people just like other south east asians are residue of legacy from the south Indian CHOLA dynasty and due to that they too speak Tamil

Answer 3

The languages spoken by the people on the Andaman islands are not sanskrit of origin.

Answer 4

First of all for those who are unfamiliar about origin of Tamil -

The Tamil alphabet is descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India. The earliest known Tamil inscriptions date back to at least 500 BC. The oldest literary text in Tamil, Tolkāppiyam, was composed around 200 BC. The alphabet is well suited to writing literary Tamil, centamil. However it is ill-suited to writing colloquial Tamil, koduntamil. During the 19th century, attempts were made to create a written version of the colloquial spoken language. Nowadays the colloquial written language appears mainly in school books and in passages of dialogue in fiction.

Very few people know that Tamil was known to be devised by Maharishi August. Lord Rama Mentioned about this achievemnet of Maharishi August to his younger brother Laxman in onew of the chapters of 'Ramayana'.

The ancient most script of India is seen on the seals of Mohenjodaro and Harappa, though it is yet to be deciphered. However, the oldest script, which could be read are Brahmi and Kharosthi, found in the inscriptions of the Mauryan Emperor Asoka. The Brahmi script is the parent of several families and sub-families of scripts developed in India (North and South India) and in Southeast Asia, Tibet, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

In North India scripts of the Guptas, Vakatakas and Palas evolved from the Asokan Brahmi script. From western branch of Brahmi, scripts such as Sarada, Tibetan, Nandinagari and Devanagari evolved and the eastern branch gave birth to the Gaudi, Newari, Bengali, Oriya and Maithili scripts. In the South, the Brahmi took a rounder form which developed into the Pallava script. The Pallava script was further developed in various forms in different regions of South India on the one hand on the other it was taken to South East Asia, to be further developed into Khmer, Thai, Laotion and Indonesian scripts.

The oldest manuscripts available today are in the Gupta Brahmi script – a few examples are Gilgit Manuscripts, Bower Manuscripts and others found in Turkistan. In present day the Indian manuscripts, found in various libraries and private collectins are written in a great variety of scripts; those are Sarada, several types of Newari (Ranjana, Bhujimol, etc.), Gaudi, old Bengali, Maithili, Oriya, Nandinagari, Devanagari, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Grantha, etc.

About influence of sanskrit on other languages, verbally all of the Indian languages show significant inclination towards sanskrit. Some no-indian languages too show the same kind of inclination. However when it comes to script form, there are similarities, but the oldest script is yet not deciphered.

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Answer 5

All Indian language is influenced by sanskrit, that is why it is called as mother of all languages.

Answer 6

NONE.

All original Indian languages ,dialects have some how or other the influence of Sanskrit.It is the mother of all languages.

Answer 7

I think its Tamil. Pls check the wikipedia site about Tamil.