How many of you speak Tamil

I am not in India. How different are Hindi, Gujarai, Tamil? Are they completely different, or can they be understood by each other?
How many of you understand Sanskrit and how different is it from your modern languages?

 

Tamil is different from languages spoken in north india.
Tamil,malayalam,telugu,kannada are looks similar in some extent.

 

Yeah. I can get you people.

Duttu evlo kuduppeenga???

 

Naa.. naaa...

Tamil is a south Indian language. The script is totally different from Gujarati and Hindi.

Not sure about Gujarathi.

But, I can say Hindi and Tamil are totally out of phase. If you know Hindi and can understand Hindi, you may understand languages like Marathi, Rajasthani, Bengali etc.. to an extent.

Hindi, marathi and Rajasthani are all of the Devanagiri script.

Like French, English , Spanish all the same character set ( similar) - A , B , C.... Z


Tamil and Malayalam are almost similar... You can manage.

 

i can help u...

im from Tamilnadu (chennai)

 

Hi,

Me also from Tamil Nadu and also i speak Tamil.

 

well people speaking Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada can understand Tamil a little bit....

But it would be tough for Tamil speaking people to understand Telugu and Kannada....

but Tamil and Malayalam are bit similar... they can understand each other...

And i speak Tamil, I'm from Chennai....

 

I think tamil is one of the toughest indian languages
my mother tounge is telugu.im trying to learn tamil des days,but im unable to keep those tamil words in my mind.
problem is that if i asked to translate a english sentence like"what are you doing" in tamil, two persons are telling me two different sentences like"enna sairinga" and "enna panreenga".so im confused litreally : confused:

 

i accept this

 

i am from amritsar and i speak hindi or punjabi not tamil

 

Talim :-s whats that? i mean where this language use

 

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T-A-M-I-L one of the oldest languages still being used primarily in the South Indian State of Tamil Nadu. And also part of Sri Lanka

 

here... u can chk few details on Wikipedia


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language

 

Language:

Tamil (தமிழ் tamiḻ; IPA: [t̪əmɨɻ]) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia, Mauritius, Vietnam, Réunion as well as emigrant communities around the world.[1] It is the administrative language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and the first Indian language to be declared as a classical language by the government of India in 2004.

List of tamils

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tamil_people

Some of the eminent and popular tamils are:

A R Rehman.
Viswanathan Anand.
Abdul kalam
velupillai prabhakaran

 

^ I dont think Prabhakaran deserves the 'eminent' title...

 

Our state govt. has a different opinion.
Also, he is considered great by many native tamils around the globe.

 

Cant admire a man who resorts to mindless violence, killing innocents, forcefully recruiting children into the LTTE and killing Rajiv Gandhi..

 

Yeah. I know. I agree.

 

A typical north indian view....

Mr. prabhakaran is a great freedom fighter, a role model many tamil youths.