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TELEGRAPHIC TRANSMISSION
Telegraphic Transmission in Tamil is nearly as
efficient as English and is more efficient than the other languages considered
(Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi), using the optimum code for each
language.
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
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MOST EFFICIENT
The number ofbits of information, required in Tamil to convey the same
semantic content of a message is lower than required for English and much
lower than other Indian languages; based on translations from the Indian
languages into English, therefore, Tamil is most efficient, and is more
efficient than English.
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
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TAMIL IN NORTH-INDIA BEFORE ARYANS
It is also well-known fact accepted by all scholars
that there are many Sanskrit words which are all Dravidian and this will
confirm the conclusion that the Dravidian tongue was prevalent in North
India before the Aryans came and occupied it. The same conclusion is forced
upon us by an examination of all vernaculars of North India. No reasonable
doubt can therefore be entertained as the Dravidian speech once being spoken
in North India.
PROF MD. BANDARKAR MA.
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TO THE FIELD OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS
For the evaluation of Indian linguistic thought, it is probably as unportant
and crucial as the grammer which goes under the name of Panini. To the
field of general linguistic, it would add, if sufficiently known, some
new important insights on a number of phonetic, etymological, morphological
and syntactic problems.
DR. KAMIL ZVELEBIL
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MOST COPIOUS
Tamil is the earliest cultivated of all the Dravidians idioms, the most
copious and contains the largest portion and the richest of indubitably
ancient forms.
DR. CALDWEL
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WONDERFUL MONOSYLLABLES
Tamil with its wonderful monosyllables, is one
of the most concise of languages. The Tirukuural is an example of the condensation
of thought that is possible in Tamil.
DR. WINSLOW
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SENSE OF LOGIC.
The Tarnil language is extraordinary in its subtlety and sense of logic.
DR. GILBERT SLATER
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ADOPTED TONGUE OF MISSIONARIES
Tamil is to be respected as having been the adopted
tongue of Beschi, Ziegenbalg, Schwartz and Fabricius. It was the first
of the languages of India studied by protestant Missionaries and is that
with which the Jesuit propagandists have been mostly exercised, and Europeans
have probably spoken and written more in it that in any other Eastern language.
EJ ROBINSON
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MOHENJODARO SCRIPT
The two Brahmi scripts, one of Northern and the
other of Southern India, are developments of the Mohenjodaro script; that
of the Dravidian people of south India. Several signs of the Mohenjodaro
script are found in the pre-historic pottery of the Tinnevelly District,
in rock inscriptions of the Nilgiris, and tombs in the Hyderabad& state.
The north Brahmi is not the natural continuation of the Mohenjodaro script.
This script was adopted by the incoming Aryans who did not know any writing
at the time of their invasion.
H.HERAS
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TAMIL LANGUAGE IN NORTH INDIA
It is indeed strange how the Aryans failed to supplant the Dravidian
speech in the southern part of India, though it most successfully did in
North India, where I have no doubt the Dravidian language prevailed before
the advent of the Aryans. This will be seen from the fact that Bruhi the
language of the mountaineers it the Khanship of Kelat in Baluchistan contains
not only some Dravidian words, but a considerable infusion of distinctively
Dravidian forms and ideas.
PROF M D. BANDARKAR MA.
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