Living with one of the Classical Languages

            If I look out the visitor statistics of my blog, I see only few requests from my country.  Most of the page views from America, England and Australia. I’m not sure whether it’s accurate. But this is what Blooger shows to me. So I would like to showcase my mother language Tamil to my fellow visitors.

Do you ever come across the term called Classical language?  This is what wiki says,

            A classical language is a language with a literature that is classical. According to UC Berkeley linguist George L. Hart, it should be ancient, it should be an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own, not as an offshoot of another tradition, and it must have a large and extremely rich body of ancient literature. Thus classical languages tend to be either dead languages, or show a high degree of diglossia, as the spoken varieties of the language diverge further and further away from the classical written language over centuries.

These are the 7 classical languages from the known world,

1.             Greek
2.             Sanskrit
3.             Latin
4.             Arabic
5.             Hebrew
6.             Tamil
7.             Chinese

            Peweeeee.. I see my language Tamil in the list. I would like to add the points that come to mind when I think of Tamil.

• Tamil is the only classical language that is STILL being spoken by people as a LIVING language all over the world (Not only in Tamilnadu, India)

• Tamil is one of the oldest languages in the world.

• Tamil is the only language has the alphabet to pronounce “zha” (Only Tamil peoples can understand this.

• Famous Tamil literature “Thirukural” is most translated book in the world next to the Bible and Koran.

• Finally it’s my mother language.

            I have few more points but like my previous spots, Every language has its own features and characteristics. That’s the reality J

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