The Oldest of Languages

This is my second post. If there any mistakes, put it in the comments section. There is always a kind of dispute on which is the oldest of languages. Many claims that their language is the oldest and I am not a exception from that expect for the fact that I intend to write a blog about that with facts I gathered from my friends and the Internet. This is about the language "TAMIL"...

It's been considered that Tamil is derived from King Ashoka's Brahmi scripts.

Brahmi is the modern name given to the oldest members of the Brahmic family of alphabets. The best known inscriptions in Brahmi are the rock-cut edicts of Ashoka in north-central India, dated to the 3rd century BCE. These are generally considered the earliest known examples of Brahmi writing, though the script may be somewhat older and there are occasional claims for dates as far back as the 6th century BCE. The script was deciphered in 1837 by James Prinsep, an archaeologist, philologist, and official of the British East India Company.

As far as I saw the internet, some of the information are as follows, The Primary Classical Language of the World is a 1966 book by Devaneya Pavanar. In this book, Pavanar in the English language details his claim that Tamil is a "superior and more divine" language than Sanskrit. In his view the Tamil language originated in "Lemuria", the cradle of civilization and place of origin of language.





"Lemuria" according to Pavanar, connecting Madagascar, South India and Australia (covering most of the Indian Ocean). Mount Meru stretches southwards from Sri Lanka. [Source : www.wikipedia.org]




Pavanar's timeline for the evolution of mankind and Tamil is as follows:

500,000 BC : origin of the human race
200,000 to 50,000 BC : evolution of the Tamilian or Homo Dravida
200,000 to 100,000 BC : beginnings of Tamil
100,000 to 50,000 BC : growth and development of Tamil,
50,000 BC : Kumari Kandam civilisation
20,000 BC : A lost Tamil culture of the Easter Island which had an advanced civilisation
16,000 BC : Lemuria submerged
6087 BC : Second Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king
3031 BC : A Chera prince in his wanderings in the Solomon Island saw wild sugarcane and started cultivation in Tamilnadu
1780 BC : The Third Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king
7th century BC : Tolkappiyam, the earliest extant Tamil grammar
[source : www.wikipedia.org]

As stated above, Tolkappiyam was written in 7th century BC, then how can Tamil be derived from 3rd century BC

Primary Classicality of Tamil

Claims regarding the "Primary Classicality of Tamil":
1. Lemurian origin of Tamil.
2. Phonological simplicity of Tamil.
3. Catholicity of Tamil.
4. Tamulic substratum of the Aryan family of languages.
5. Morphological purity and primitiveness of Tamil.
6. The presence of the words ‘amma’ and ‘appa’ in almost all great languages in some form or other.
7. Absence of Nominative case-termination in Tamil.
8. Separability and significance of all affixes in Tamil.
9. Absence of morphological gender in Tamil
10. Absence of arbitrary words in Tamil.
11. Traceability of Tamil to its very origin.
12. Logical and natural order of words in Tamil.
13. Absence of dual number in Tamil.
14. Originality and natural development of Tamil.
15. Highest order of the classicality of Tamil.
[source : www.wikipedia.org]

If you are unable to believe these facts, then read the following for some proofs more than that.

Archaeological Fact

In a recent a archaeological research in "Kodumanal" near "Erode" in "TamilNadu", old dated tamil encrypted rocks were found.
In another recent archaeological research in "Theni" in "TamilNadu", tamil encrypted stones were found which of those carbon dating goes to 3rd century BC.

One of my friend helped me by referring a Tamil article. Its as follows,

தமிழின் இன்றைய எழுத்து வடிவம் உருப்பெறுவதற்கான மூல வடிவம் தமிழிதான். அதிலிருந்து ஒரே சமயத்தில் மூன்று எழுத்துருக்கள் வெவ்வேறு இடங்களில் நிலைபெறத் தொடங்கின. தென்தமிழ்நாட்டில் வட்டெழுத்துக்களும், வடதமிழ்நாட்டில் தமிழ் எழுத்துக்களும் தோன்றின. அசோகர் பிராகிருத மொழியை எழுதுவதற்காக இத்தமிழியைக் கடன்வாங்கிப் பயன்படுத்தியதால், வட இந்தியாவில் இது அசோகன் பிராமி என்ற பெயரில் அழைக்கப்பட்டது. ஹிந்தி, பஞ்சாபி முதலான வடமொழிகள் நாகரி எழுத்துமுறையிலிருந்து தோன்றினாலும், நாகரி எப்பொழுது தோன்றியது என்பது இன்னும் கண்டறியப்படவில்லை. தமிழகத்தில் கிடைக்கும் காலத்தால் மிகவும் முற்பட்ட நாகரிக் கல்வெட்டு இராஜசிம்மருடையதாகும். மாமல்லபுரம் புலிக்குகை எனப்படும் அதிரணசண்டேசுவரத்தின் வாயிலில் ஒரு புறம் கிரந்தக் கல்வெட்டும், மறுபுறம் அதே கல்வெட்டு நாகரியிலும் வெட்டப்பட்டுள்ளன. இதைக்கொண்டு, குறைந்த பட்சம் அதற்கு 200 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பிருந்து தமிழகத்தில் நாகரி பயன்படுத்தப்பட்டிருக்கலாம் என்றும், வட இந்தியாவில், அசோகருக்கும் இராஜசிம்மருக்கும் இடைப்பட்ட காலத்தில் நாகரி தோன்றியிருக்கலாம் எனவும் ஆய்வாளர்கள் கருதுகின்றனர். [source : www.varalaaru.com]

The above citation is just a small paragraph from a article.It says that old Tamil transformed to three languages and King Ashoka borrowed letters from Tamil to write his Brahmi script. Languages like Hindi, Punjabi are derived from a script called Nagiri. The date of Nagari's birth is still not confirmed. But a encrypted rock in krandha script was found in Maamalapuram in TamilNadu and near that the same script was encrypted in Nagari. This states that before Ashoka, Nagari, Krandha and Tamil was used in TamilNadu.

If you like to read the whole article you can read it in http://www.varalaaru.com/Default.asp?articleid=357

I think that I have provided enough proofs. If you still can't believe it, the article following is specially for you to see. This is a deciphering that me and my friend tried and let me tell you, we are even shocked at the results.This is for the "uyir eluthukal" / "soul letters" of the Tamil language. You can see the image below.



The first six rows are letters from Tamil script and the last two rows are letters from King Ashoka's Brahmi script. As you can see we have categorised Tamil Scripts to 3 rows 'a','b' and 'c'. It shows the language's transformation over time. Truth be told, there are a lot of transformations and we are not able to get a track of them. So we decided to decipher with our own ideas.There are actually 12 letters in the "soul letters", but we think that these 9 letters are the original letters from the old Tamil script. The concept here is that you have to try to write the letters in the easiest way possible within a short time possible.

As shown,we have provided row 'a' is the earliest form of letters (as we ciphered comparing the modern Tamil and the old Brahmi script). Row 'b' is somewhere in the middle with a transformation and row 'c' is the modern Tamil script as it is. The only letter we are not sure of the result is in column 4 of the Tamil script. We are not able to find a match for the ciphering of 4c to 4a. If anyone can help on that it would be great. As you can see the letters in column 'a' resembles the Brahmi script. We ciphered the letters in column 'a' by taking into account of the above said conditions. Now for you, the transformation can be clearly seen into the column 'b' and the column 'c' which is now being used.

I hope that I gave enough proof and explanation for my post. If you can't understand anything in this post, write it in the comments section and I'll try to clear your doubts. If anyone has trouble in understanding the last image, let me know and I'll try to make it much simpler. Good or Bad, type in your feedbacks...

In this section, I would like to thank two of my friends,

Mr R.Selvakumar for helping me to cipher the Old Tamil language script.
Mr Raamakrishnan for providing me the section Tamil article and brought Archaeological Facts section to my notice and referring me the link.

I would also like to thank the following websites

www.wikipedia.org
www.varalaaru.com
www.google.com

The above sites helped me to gather some of the information.