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OLDEST LANGUAGE
"Being Dravidians, the inhabitants of Mohenjodaro
and Northern India naturally spoke a Dravidian language, yet this language
war not one of the Dravidian languages now spoken in India, but probably
their parent, which may be called Proto-Dravidian. The large proportion
of the words used in the Proto-Dravidian are also found in Tamil. This
confirms the common belief that Tamil is the oldest of the present languages.
H HERAS
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DIRECT ANCESTOR
Brahmi script of Asoka is the Mohenjodaro script
as developed by the Aryas. This is the difference between them which nevertheless
reveal obvious similarities with our signs. In this connection it may be
pointed out that one at least of the signs of Mohenjodaro seems to be direct
ancestor of one of the letters of the Tamil alphabet.
H.HERAS
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TAMIL CIIARACTERISTICS
"Dravidian languages were actually flourishing
in the western regions of Northern India at the period when languages of
the Indo-European type where introduced by the Aryan Invasions from the
North-West. Dravidian characteristics have been traced alike in Vedic and
Classical Sanskrit, in the Prakrits or early popular dialects and in the
modern vernaculars derived from them". "We may conclude that the earlier
forms of speech by which Indo-Europe an was modified in the various stages
of its progress from the North-West were predominantly Dravidian".
PROF RAPSON
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ALLIED TO TAMIL
The languages spoken by the Maoris in the far-off
New Zealand which denoter utmost southern limits of 700 Kathams of Tamil
land from Cape Comorin and the languages spoken in the numerous groups
of islands between these two boundaries are allied to Tamil.
INDIAN ANTIQUITY
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ALLIED TO TAMIL
The neolithians of North India spoke language
of their own which, I hold, were allied to the so called Dravidian family
of languages and not to Sanskrit Prakrit.
P.T.S. IYENGAR
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A DIALECT OF TAMIL
The languages spoken now at Kamchatca, the North
Eastern corner of Asia, is considered to be a dialect of Tamil.
SIR. W.HUNTER
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A DIALECT OF TAMIL
The language spoken at Twsoany in Italy is a dialect
of Tamil.
J.R.A.S
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