Sanskrit and Tamil - Are these 2 languages sisters to the pride of India or Foes?
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The answer lies in your own mindset.  These two languages have existed side by side for many many centuries.  Sanskrit is 'dead' in the sense that it is not used in day to day speech any where. Yet has an amazing power to influence religion, literature and living through its influence. Tamil is spoken in many countries around the world and again has a past that any one can be proud of. They are "foes" only in some minds. \n\ncc
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Sourashtra (alternate names and spellings: Palkar, Sowrashtra, Saurashtra, Saurashtri, Patnuli) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of the Southern Indian State of Tamil Nadu. The Ethnologue puts the number of speakers at 310,000 (1997 IMA), although the actual number could be double this figure or even more.\n\n\nClassification\nSourashtra is a Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.\n\n\nGeographical Distribution\nThe speakers of the Sourashtra language, known as Sourashtrians, maintain a predominant presence in Madurai, a city in the southern part of Tamil Nadu. Though official figures are hard to come by, it is believed that the Sourashtra population makes up for about one-third of the city's total population. They are present in significant numbers in the cities of Dindigul, Paramakudi, Erode, Palani, Rajapalayam, Nilakottai, Salem, Thanjavur, Trichy, Kumbakonam,Thiruvarur and Kottar (Nagercoil). A sizable number is also found in Chennai, Bangalore and other parts of India, but this presence is largely due to small-scale migrations in the last few decades from one of the aforesaid traditional Sourashtrian settlements.\n\nIt is also believed that Sourashtra speakers exist, albeit in small numbers, in other southern states such as Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. However, in the absence of any reliable facts to substantiate this claim, this remains a speculation at best.\n\n\nHistory\nThough there is little historical evidence available to support the argument that the Sourashtrians lived in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat in Western India, folklore, and recent linguistic and genetic researches have been able to establish that this region was indeed once the habitat of the Sourashtrians. However, their language has more similarities with Marathi and Konkani, both Indo-Aryan languages of Western India, than it does with Modern Gujarati, the language of present-day Gujarat. Linguists have been able to explain why it is so: Both Sourashtra and Gujarati branched off from a common parent, and have since taken completely different paths to modernity. Gujarati came under the influence of Persian, Arabic, many tribal languages and Hindi, whereas Sourashtra, taking off from Gujarat before it had made any Muslim contact, was influenced by Marathi, Konkani, Kannada, Telugu, and finally, Tamil. It has been acknowledged that Persian and Arabic have had only limited influence on Marathi and Konkani, and this is why they still retain a good amount of vocabulary and grammar derived from Sanskrit, as compared to other daughter languages of Sanskrit. It is possible that the vocabulary and grammar shared between Modern Sourashtra and Marathi is what was originally derived from Sanskrit.\n\nThe southward flight of the Sourashtrians seems to have been triggered by the frequent Muslim invasions of their homeland and the instability caused by it. No details are available as to whether it was a mass-migration and when it took place. They found the safe haven they were looking for in the Vijayanagar Kingdom, with its capital at Hampi in present-day Karnataka, which was then expanding southwards. They, whose traditional occupation was weaving, were able to impress upon the Emperor with their weaving skills, and soon were elevated to the position of Royal Weavers. Telugu and Kannada were the court languages, though other languages such as Sanskrit and Tamil were also in use. It was during this period that Sourashtra started absorbing Telugu and Kannada words into its lexicon.\n\nVijayanagar rulers had the practice of appointing Governors, known as Nayaks, to manage far-flung regions of the empire. When Madurai and Thanjavur were annexed to the empire, Governors were appointed to administer the new territories. It is believed that a part of the Sourashtra community moved to Madurai and Thanjavur to serve the Governors.\n\n\n\n\n****\nHey why di they suspend you from yahoo\n*****
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Hindi is based on the Devnagari script while Urdu is based on the Persian script.  Hindi has its origins in India while Urdu is from the Middle East.  There are a lot of common words between the 2 languages.
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Urdu (اردو) is an Indo-European language which originated in India, most likely in the vicinity of Delhi from where it spread to the rest of the subcontinent. Urdu along with Hindi forming the Hindustani language is the second most popular 'first' language and second most popular 'first or second' language in the world. Urdu by itself is the twentieth most popular 'first' language in the world. It developed from the interaction between local Indian Sanskrit-derived Prakrits and the Persian languages. This process took place mostly in military camps, and word Urdu means "army" or "horde" in Turkish.\n\nIt soon became the language of the Mughals, distinguished linguistically from local languages by its large and extensive Persian-Arabic vocabulary superimposed on a native Hindi base of grammar, usages and vocabulary. The result was what has been considered by some to be one of the world's most beautiful languages, the "Kohinoor" ("Mountain of Light," a famed native, large and brilliant diamond) of India. It is widely spoken today in both India and Pakistan and all countries having a sizeable South Asian Diaspora.\n\npaninion astadhayay was written by panini in India. it is a grammer book for sanskrit.\n\n  Panini's Sanskrit grammar, produced in about 1300 B. C. E. is the shortest and the fullest grammar in the  world. Panini composed a Sanskrit grammar called the Ashtadhyayi. In 4,000 short verses, it revealed the inner mechanics of Sanskrit - how the language worked and how new words evolved. \nAlbrecht Weber (1825-1901) author of History of Indian Literature, wrote: \n\n"Panini's grammar is distinguished above all similar works of other countries partly by its thoroughly exhaustive investigation of the roots of the language, and the formation of words; partly by its sharp precision of expression, which indicates with an enigmatical succinctness whether forms come under the same or different rules.
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Nice Language...\nVery sweet and musical\n\nWas a strong contender to Hindi as India's national language\n\nBut the pl who speak it are very rigid, narrow minded and linguistic ... sad
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Why not!\nThe US is a country of immigrants and is marked by ethnic diversity. When India can have several(14) national languages, surely two is no big deal.
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Malayalam (not to be confused with Malay spoken in Malaysia) is a Dravidian language closely related to Tamil, although it is more influenced by Sanskrit than the latter. Speakers of Malayalam are called Malayalis. It is estimated that the ancestral language that gave rise to both Tamil and Malayalam split sometime in the 9th century AD, giving rise to Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil. Tamil subsequently influenced the early development of Malayalam because it was the language of scholarship and administration. Later influences on Malayalam came from Sanskrit through religious sources.\n\nThe earliest writings in Malayalam are from the end of the 9th century, and the first literary text dates to 1125?1250 AD. The early literature of Malayalam included classical songs and poetry. Malayalam prose of different periods shows varying degrees of influence of other languages such as Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English. Modern Malayalam literature is rich in poetry, fiction, drama, biography, and literary criticism.\n\nMalayalam is spoken by 35 million people primarily in the state of Kerala and in the Laccadive Islands in southern India. It is one of the 22 official languages of India. It is also spoken in Bahrain, Fiji, Israel, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom. \n\nToday, Malayalam is coming into its own as the language of administration and as the medium of instruction in schools and colleges. \n\nUnlike Tamil, Malayalam has borrowed liberally from other languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English.\n\nMalayalam (/malayALam/) is the principal language of the South Indian state of Kerala and also of the Lakshadweep Islands (Laccadives) of the west coast of India. Malayalis (speakers of Malayalam), who - males and females alike - are almost totally literate, constitute 4 percent of the population of India and 96 percent of the population of Kerala (29.01 million in 1991). In terms of the number of speakers Malayalam ranks eights among the fifteen major languages of India. The word /malayALam/ originally meant mountainous country) (/mala/- mountain + /aLam/-place). Tamil is its neighbor on the south and east and Kannada on the north and east. \n\nWith Tamil, Kota, Kodagu and Kannada, Malayalam belongs to the southern group of Dravidian languages. Its affinity to Tamil is the most striking. Proto-Tamil Malayalam, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently disintegrated over a period of four of five centuries from the ninth century on, resulting in the emergence of Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil. As the language of scholarship and administration Tamil greatly influenced the early development of Malayalam. Later the irresistable inroads the Brahmins made into the cultural life of Kerala accelerated the assimilation of many Indo-Aryan features into Malayalam at different levels. \n\nThe earliest written record of Malayalam is the /vazhappaLLi/ inscription (ca. 830 AD). The early literature of Malayalam comprised three types of composition: \n\nClassical songs known as /pATTu/ of the Tamil tradition \n/maNipravALam/ of the Sanskrit tradition, which permitted a generous interspersing of Sanskrit with Malayalam \nThe folk song rich in native elements \nMalayalam poetry to the late twentieth century betrays varying degrees of the fusion of the three different strands. The oldest examples of /pattu/ and maniprvAlam respectively are /rAmacharitam/ and /vaishikatantram/, both of the twelveth century. \nThe earliest extant prose work in the language is a commentary in simple Malayalam, Bhashakautaliyam (12th century) on Chanakya's Arthasastra. Malayalam prose of different periods exibit degree of influence of different languages such as Tamil, Sanskrit, Prakrits, Pali, Hindi, Urdu, Arabi, Persian, Syriac, Portuguese, Dutch, French and English. Modern literature is rich in poe
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Sanskrit is an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.\n\nPUSHPA is usually an Indian name
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You can't..\nLearing Indian languages is not a piece of cake.
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Herez a helpful site:\nhttp://www.alphadictionary.com/directory/Languages/Indo,045Iranian/Punjabi/
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India has a diverse list of spoken languages among different groups of people. At least 30 different languages and around 2000 dialects have been identified. The Constitution of India has stipulated the usage of Hindi and English to be the two official languages of communication for the national government. Additionally, it contains a list of 22 scheduled languages. These languages are entitled to representation on the Official Language Commission, and a candidate in an examination conducted for national government service may opt to take the exam in any of these languages.
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Tamil or malayalam class, but who is ur student?
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I don't read Tamil books anymore, thanks for the offer. \nAnyway Sanjana you do realize you are swearing in Tamil right?
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If the language is correct...then you may find the following links helpful\n\n\nAadesh...  Message\nAadhira...  Moon\nAadi...  Important\nAadit... Peak\nAaditya...  Sun\nAahva... Beloved
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r u indian orur related to india? i am one tho. well i think it is not. coz telegu is a totally diffreent langue while sanskrit is another. trhere is nothing relation betwen them
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it is a foolish comparison. iam an indian and proud of my heritage and uniqueness. but not all of that  heritage are so praisworthy. same goes for western culture. \n\ni dislike that western culture in the name of relegion had spread so much violence. burn those on stakes .we are proud that we are most tolerant people on earth\n but what about sati system. funny thing is that it got social sanction even when no relegious base . just because many wanted to show off that their daughter or D-in-law was soooooo faithfull or in some cases so that they would not have to give her, her property as inherited from her husband.\n\nit will be as foolish as to compre apple and orange.
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1.   Hindi: 337 million \n2.   Bengali: 70 million \n3.   Telugu: 66 million (Dravidian) \nMarathi: 63 million \nTamil: 53 million (Dravidian) \nUrdu: 43 million \nGujarati: 41 million \nKannada: 33 million (Dravidian) \nMalayalam: 30 million (Dravidian) \nOriya: 28 million