Recently I received a mail from one of my collgue (who is a karnataka person). I was upset after reading that mail. Is there any mail which emphasises our language 'TAMIL', please send me your points and I can send him a very dashing reply. Here is the forwaded mail from him.
Ofcourse every one's language is the best language for himself, however I have heard 'kal thondra...man thondra...' for tamil. So atleast want to convey that Tamil is older than Kannada.
Rgds.,
Shiv
About Language is the third oldest language of World. (After . . . Sanskrit & Greek) is as old as 2000 years. is 99.99% perfect -logically and scientifically. igas got 7 Gnana Peetha Awards . Look at other languages . . . Hindi -- 6, Telugu - 2, Malayalam - 3, Tamil - 2. Shri VINOBA BHAVE called script as QUEEN OF WORLD SCRIPTS- " Vishwa LipigaLa RaaNi - "
So called International language -- English does not have its own Script. English is written in "ROMAN" So called National Language -- Hindi does not have its own script. Hindi is written in "Deva nagari" Though Tamil has a script, logically it is imperfect -- as common letters are used for many pronunciations.. is as old as 2000 years. You can write what you speak and you can read what you write.
When " Kaviraja Maarga was written . . ." kaaveriyinda , godaavarivaregirpa ... " by Amogha Varsha Nripathunga, English was incradle & Hindi was not born at all. is the only Indian language for which a foreigner(Kittal) wrote a dictionary (Shabda Kosha) Ragale Saahithya can be seen only in which is of a rare and different kind of literature.
Number of literature awards KUVEMPU got, was highest among any Indian authors. Chandassu (shatpadis) out pared all other languages So Let us have PRIDE in using . Be proud of being a KANNADIGA