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THE UNBROKEN LITERARY TRADITIONS
Tamil can be claimed to be one of the longest
unbroken literary traditions of any of the world's living languages.
A.L.BASHAM BA,PHD,FRAS
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NOT INFLECTED
Tamil is not inflected, in the sense that Sanskrit
is, but the relations of one word with another, and the number, person,
and tens of verbs, are known by affixes, which may be piled up one another
indefinitely.
A.L.BASHAM BA,PHD,FRAS
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ANCIENT CONNECTION
There are hundreds of Indo-European words which
ate to be traced to old Dravidian forms, forcing us to draw the conclusion
that there is an ancient connection between the Dravidians and Indo-European
Languages.
HERR SCHOENER
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OLDEST
Tamil is the oldest and principal Dravidian tongue,
Dravida and Tamil are two forms of the same word.
HG. RAWILINSON
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OFFSHOOTS OF TAMIL MOTHER
Even such languages as Telugu, Canarese and Malayalam
are merely offshoots of their Tamil mothen Some scholars have fancied Telugu
and other so-called Dravidian languages are quite independent of Tamil.
This is the old song of growing up child in turning proud and disowning
all relationship to their ancestry. If all Sanskrit words and derivatives
are eliminated from these languages the residue of words left will be found
to be ancient Tamil words now considered obsolete or found in poetry of
by gone days.
RJ LAZARUS, BA,D.D
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STRUCTURE AND NATURE OF TAMIL.
The sequence of things, of thought and action
and its results, is always maintained inviolate, in the structure and nature
of the Tamil language.
REV PERCIVAL
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GENUINE LANGUAGE
The Tamil poets use the genuine language of poetry.
CONSTANTINE JOSEPH BESCHI
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FLOURISH WITHOUT SANSICRIT
Tamil, the most highly cultivated as intra of
all Dravidian idioms, can dispense with its Sanskrit altogether, if need
be, and not only stand alone, but flourish without its aid
DR.ROBERT CALDWELL
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THE GREAT ANTIQUITY OF TAMIL
The great antiquity of Tamil, which is one worthly
rival of Sanskrit is abundantly plain.
DR.G.U.POPE
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CENTAMIL
The ancient classical Tamil Language, called CENTAMIL
in which nearly all the literature has been written, contains exceedingly
little Sanskrit.
DR. CALDWEL
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