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MOST HIGHLY CULTIVATED LANGUAGE
Tamil is the most highly cultivated language and
possesses the richest store of indigenous literature.
MAX MULLER
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OLDEST LANGUAGE
Being Dravidians, the inhabitants of North India
naturally spoke a Dravidian language in which the earliest proportion of
the words used are found in Tamil. This confirms the common belief that
Tamil is the oldest of the present languages.
REV.HERAS
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NO LANGUAGE THAN TAMIL
No language combines greater force with equal
brevity than Tamil and it may be asserted that no human speech is more
close and philosophic in its expression as an exponent of the mind than
Tamil.
REV.PERCIVAL
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TAMIL WORDS
Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek - The three classical
languages of the world contain Tamil words in their vocabulary.
RHYS DAVIDS
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DISPENSE WTH SANSKRIT
Tamil can readily dispense with the greater part
or whole of Sanskrit and by dispensing with it rises to a pure and more
refined style whereas English cannot abandon its Latin without abandoning
perspercuity.
DR. CALD WELL
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GREAT CULTURAL LANGUAGE
Tamil is one of the great cultural languages of
the World. It is the classical language in the true sense of the term and
it is at the same time a living language.
DR. KAMIL ZVELEBIL
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MOST COPIOUS, REFINED, POLISHED
Tamil is one of the most copious, refined and
polished languages spoken by man.
TAYLOR
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PRODUCTS OF ELABORATE CIVILISATION
As it is known to us, the Tamil language and civilisation
are the products of a very long period of a somewhat elaborate civilisation.
DR. GILBERT SLATER
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MORE POLISHED, EXACT, MORE COPIOUS
It is not perhaps extravagant to say that in its
poetic form the Tamil is more polished and exact than Greek, and, in both
dialectswith its borrowed~treasures, more copious than Latin. In its fullness
and power, it more resembles English and German more than any other language.
DR. WINSLOW
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IF I FEEL SORRY FOR ANYTHING
I at all I feel sorry for anything in my life,
it is for the opportunity I could not get to learn Tamil - the noble language.
MAHATAMA GANDHI
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