T-A-M-I-L
The Archaeo Modern Intellectual Language
Introduction
Have
you ever heard about a Cavemen’s Language which later developed as a Computer’s
Language and still spoken by several millions of people all over the world?.
Yes, it is the language called TAMIL.
Tamil,
at present, is the Official language of State of Tamilnadu in the Indian sub
continent. It is also the Official language of Puducherry Union Territory, Sri
Lanka and Singapore. The Tamil speaking Diaspora includes several States of India
as well as Malaysia, Miyanmar, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States,
Canada, Mauritius etc. Being one of the Scheduled languages of India, Tamil is
the first Indian language which was accepted as the Classical Language of India
by the then Central Government of India in the year 2004.
There
are several thousands of websites available to know about the Ethnicity of
Tamil people and Tamil culture. So I am not going to discuss about the same
here. In this chapter, first we are going to see about the antiquity of Tamil
language from the Linguistic point of view.
Ethnicity
of Tamils:
There
is an old saying in Tamil which describes about the antiquity of Tamil ethnicity
which is given below:
Kal thoandri maN thoandraak kaalaththae vaalhodu
Mun
thoandri mooththa kudi.
The
above saying means that, the Tamil ethnicity formed and came forward with Stone
Tools even before the Paleolithic Era, where Rocks only exist and no sand
formation.
Now,
a question arises in most of the reader’s mind that, is there any kind of proof
to attest the above statement about the antiquity of Tamil ethnicity.?. Yes,
Tamil language itself is a solid proof which is capable of prooving the above
statement with the help of its unique words. Before looking into those unique tamil
words, we will first see about the origin of Cavemen’s language.
Origin
of Cavemen’s language:
Cavemen,
the first ever known human race in the world, are the class of people lived in
Caves as their shelter. Infact, Cavemen did not hunt at first for their food.
There existed no necessity for them to hunt because hell lot of sweet fruits
were readily available for them as food in the Forests. Besides fruits, they
also consumed vegetables, flowers, tubers, leaves etc. At one time, Cavemen
started to starve because of the scarcity of fruits, vegetables etc. Hence, as
a matter of survival, they started to eat the remains of the animals hunted by
the Lion, Tiger, etc. This is the first ever notable change in the development
of Human race to the next level of human mental evolution.
Again
the scarcity of hunted animal remains as a food supplement forced the Cavemen
to think about their own hunting. It was not so easy for the Cavemen to hunt
the animals alone in the forests. So the Cavemen united together to form groups
among them and each group has to help the other in hunting. Cavemen, now
entering into a new mode of survival, i.e. hunting, hereinafter were called as
Hunters. Hunters, who were formed to several groups, felt the necessity to
communicate with each other for hunting. This Hunting necessity became the
mother of inventing the first Hunter’s language.
Have
you ever thought of how could be a Hunter’s language?. What could be the words
spoken by them?. What could be the first possible intuition to develop the
basic level of their communication?. Yes, the animals and birds were the first
teachers for the Hunters, from whom they learned about the simple methods of
communication. Crow’s kaa kaa, Parrots’ kee kee, Cuckoo’s koo koo, Cow’s maa
maa, Fox’s voo voo, Sheep’s bae bae were some of the sounds which aroused the
first vocal concept of language in the Hunter’s mind. Hunters concluded that
simple level of communication can be done with the help of long sounds like
kaa, kee, koo, maa, voo, bae etc. This is how the world’s First Hunters’
Language, abbreviated as FHL, was formed.
FHL
was primarily composed with single long sounds only. Ofcourse, there was no
other option for the Hunters to develop as a language except the long sounds.
They composed all the possble long sounds and decided to allocate them to a
specific communication. Initially, FHL was framed with no set of rules for
allocating each of the long sounds to a specific communication. However, after
some period of time, rules were set to allocate the sounds to avoid chaos and
mis communication.
FHL
and Modern World Languages:
We
have seen earlier that, FHL was composed of single long sounds only for
communication. If we consider the FHL equivalent to the Low Level Language or
Machine Language of Computers, then the equivalents for High Level languages of
Computers should be the modern world languages. This is because, all the modern
world languages might have been developed as variants from the FHL only.
Ofcourse, this statement should be supported with sufficient evidences, which
we will see later in another chapter.
Infact,
to claim a modern world language as a living FHL in the world, we need to
analyse the unique word set of the particular language. Unique word set is the
set of words comprised with single long sounds only and connected to Hunting in
any way. Besides this unique word set, there should be in that language, another
compendium of words common to most of the modern world languages. This is
because, FHL being the first language of the world and mother of modern world
languages, must have been included in the modern world languages in any way as
transformed or untransfomed words.
According
to the present linguistic scenario, all the major world modern languages have
been classified into several groups like indo-european, afro-asiatic,
sino-tibetan, austronesian etc. These language groups are classified based on
the similarities found within them in the context of grammar, word formations,
meanings etc. However, none among these languages except Tamil can be claimed
as a living FHL in the world. This is because, Tamil is the only language which
still keeps the unique set of words related to hunting and still having
thousands of words in common with most of the world languages.
Tamil
as the FHL:
In
this chapter, I strongly putforth Tamil as the only living FHL in the world.
While Tamil meets out all the requirements for a language to be the FHL, it has
a scientifically developed structure for word formations too. Before we look
into detail about the meanings, we will see about the unique word set of Tamil still
in use.
In
Tamil language, there are seven long sounds in the vowel set as given below.
Long vowel set: aa (ஆ), ee (ஈ), oo (ஊ), ae (ஏ), ai (ஐ), oa (ஓ), ou (ஔ).
There
are forty Two long sounds in the vowel + consonant set or simply Compound set of
Tamil as given below.
Long
Compound Set: Kaa (கா), koo (கூ), kai (கை), koa (கோ), kou (கௌ), caa (சா), cee (சீ), coo (சூ), cae (சே), coa (சோ), cou (சௌ), thaa (தா), thee (தீ), thoo (தூ), thae (தே), thai (தை), thou (தௌ), paa (பா), pee (பீ), poo (பூ), pae (பே), pai (பை), poa (போ), naa (நா), nee (நீ), noo (நூ), nae (நே), nai (நை), noa (நோ), nou (நௌ), maa (மா), mee (மீ), moo (மூ), mae (மே), mai (மை), moa (மோ), yaa (யா), vaa (வா), vee (வீ), vae (வே), vai (வை), vou (வௌ).
In total, there are forty nine long sounding vowels and compound letters in Tamil language. We will see how this long sounding unique word set of Tamil is related to Cavemen’s hunting profession in the next chapter.
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கருத்துகள் இல்லை:
கருத்துரையிடுக
உங்கள் கருத்துக்களைத் தமிழில் தட்டச்சு செய்யும் வழி:
வலப்பக்கத்தில் உள்ள பகுதியில் தமிழ் ஒலிகளை ஆங்கில எழுத்துக்களில் அசசடித்து நகல் செய்து இங்கே ஒட்டலாம்.