Topic started by Rajan (@ hostp.adia.co.ae) on Wed Oct 30 01:09:07 .
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I happen to watch 'Vanakkam Thamizhagam' on 29th October 2002 in Sun TV. The VIP on interview was 'Sathoor Sekaran' who has several Phd.s after his name; knows all the 14 official languages of India and 17 other world languages to speak, read and write. He has presented papers in many seminars and conferences in Germany and UK.

He claims one can learn Malayalam, Telegu and Kannadam in 2 to 3 hours time each one completely to speak. The reason : He has 3 to 4 formulas in which Tamil root-words can be seen converted into these languages. You know these formulas - you understand the whole language.

His second claim : Every language has thousands of words. Not all are root-words. Many are 'karanap peyar's. In the whole world only only some thousand words seem to be root-words. And all these root words originated from Tamil and got converted by 19(I am not sure about this number) different formulas. If you reconvert these words by reverse process you will find all these words in the old Tamil literatures with the same meaning.

Point 3: Words have changed by these formulas. However, the Grammer 95% not changed between those languages and Tamil as originally prescribed.

Point 4: No language in the world, except Tamil, invented one single root word in all these human history. Astonishing! He has proved this claim before linguistic professors in Germany and UK.

Does anybody has additional information?

Responses:

• From: j (@ 202.93.132.3) on: Thu Nov 7 04:11:29
  
  great information.
  
  Long live tamil and tamils
  
  
• From: madhu (@ 199.67.140.80) on: Thu Nov 7 16:20:07
  
  Rajan,
  "..He claims one can learn Malayalam, Telegu and Kannadam in 2 to 3 hours time each one completely to speak. "
  
  Is it also possible for a Telugu to learn Tamil in 2 to 3 hours? If it is, I am interested to learn tamil. Could you please provide additional details.
  
  
• From: Krishna (@ cache-dr10.proxy.aol.com) on: Fri Nov 8 06:06:11
  
  Rajan:
  
  Great news good work mate...
  
  Sankritist are not interested or willing to read such useful stuff..Selective reading made sankritist/aryanist.."kinatru thavalai"
  
  
• From: Ananda Ganesh (@ 164.164.87.165) on: Thu Dec 5 05:28:41
  
  Dear friends,
  
  It is really a useful news which make me feel proud of being a tamilian. It would be more helpful, if the person who has authored and started the discussion, has given the contact information of Mr.Sathoor Sekaran.
  
  Mr. Rajan, thanks for the information. I congradulate you for such a useful information, which worth this discussion board (unlike the response from Mr. Krishna whose sole intention is turn everything into castism, which he has been doing in all other discussion. Mr. Krishna, why not you and your enemy who have been spoiling other discussions would leave discussions of such valid purposes?).
  
  
  
• From: Ananda Ganesh (@ 164.164.87.165) on: Thu Dec 5 05:31:28
  
  Dear friends,
  
  It is really a useful news which make me feel proud of being a tamilian. It would be more helpful, if the person who has authored and started the discussion, has given the contact information of Mr.Sathoor Sekaran.
  
  Mr. Rajan, thanks for the information. I congradulate you for such a useful information, which worth this discussion board (unlike the response from Mr. Krishna whose sole intention is turn everything into castism, which he has been doing in all other discussion. Mr. Krishna, why not you and your enemy who have been spoiling other discussions would leave discussions of such valid purposes?).
  
  
  
• From: Mani (@ 202.9.180.242) on: Sun Dec 8 14:40:51
  
  if only it were true...
  
  
• From: Rajan (@ hostp.adia.co.ae) on: Fri Dec 13 03:17:10
  
  Friends,
  
  I have written to Sun TV asking for the contact details of Mr. Sathur Sekaran.
  
  I will publish it in this thread when I get it.
  
  
• From: Krishna (@ cache-dr10.proxy.aol.com) on: Sun Jan 12 02:16:35
  
  Rajan:
  
  There is one more group of researchers in West, who links Summerians, akkadian and Tamil as same group of languages which are the first language from which all other world languages were derived/developed...
  
  
  
• From: Krishna (@ cache-dr10.proxy.aol.com) on: Sun Jan 12 10:26:07
  
  Tamil Language ( by Prof.. M. Varadarajan)
  
  Old Dravidian
  
  In the historical past Proto-Dravidian was spoken throughout India. When the Turanians and the Aryans came to India through the Khyber and the Bolan Passes respectively, and mingled with the local population of the North, the North Indian languages of Proto-Dravidian origin changed to a great extent. As a consequence Praakrit and Paali emerged as the languages of the masses in the northern part of India. Despite the commingling of local and foreign ethnic elements, a section of Proto-Dravidians maintained their ethnic and cultural identity in some isolated areas, spoke corrupt forms of Proto-Dravidian languages and these have survived, to this day, as living examples of ancient Dravidian languages.
  
  Languages such as Kolami, Parji, Naiki, Gondi, Ku, Kuvi, Konda, Malta, Oroan, Gadba, Khurukh, and Brahui are examples of Dravidian languages prevalent in the North. Today Proto-Dravidian speakers are increasingly mingling with other linguistic groups and learning their languages. Therefore, their numerical strength is on the decline. People living in the Rajmahal mountains in Bengal and in the areas adjacent to Chota Nagpur are good examples of the intermingling. A section of people living in Baluchistan speak Brahui, which has many linguistic features similar to the Dravidian languages spoken in South India. Scholars are surprised today to note many linguistic similarities between Tamil and Brahui, especially in numerals, personal pronouns, syntax and in other linguistic features. The Indian Census report of 1911 classified Brahui as a language belonging to the Dravidian family. It was then spoken by about 170, 000 people, although this number over the years dwindled to a couple of thousands. Whatever be their numerical strength now, they are proof of the fact that the Dravidians in some age of the historical past were spread in the region between Baluchistan and Bengal and spoke the Proto-Dravidian idiom.
  
  North Indian Languages
  Since the Dravidians lived throughout the Indian subcontinent at some historical past, certain syntactical affinities are noticeable even today between the South and a large number of North Indian languages.
  
  When Praakrit and Paali became popular in the North, the Proto-Dravidian language lost its ground there, and confined itself entirely to the South. Even in South India it did not remain as one single language for a long time. Dialectical differences arose partly due to the political division of the Tamil country into three distinct Tamil kingdoms and partly due to the natural barriers created by rivers and mountains. The absence of proper land communication among the three Tamil kingdoms also accentuated this process of dialectal differences. As a result the Dravidian language spoken by the people. who lived in the regions north and south of the Tirupati mountains, varied to such an extent as to become two independent languages, Tamil and Telugu. The language spoken in the region of Mysore came to be known as Kannada. Malayalam emerged as yet another distinct language in Kerala. All these far-reaching changes occurred at different periods of time in the history of the Dravidian languages. Among these four languages, it is only the Tamil language which has a long literary tradition.
  
  The term Dravidian, which refers to the language of South India, is of a later origin. Originally it was derived from the word tamil /tamiz> . This word in course of time changed into dravida after undergoing a series of changes like tamiza, tramiza, tramiTa, trapida and travida. At one time the languages spoken in the regions of Karnataka, Kongu and Malabar were respectively known as Karunaattut-tamil, Tulunattut-tamil and Malainattut-tamil. Today however, these regional languages are classified under the blanket term "Dravidian family of languages".
  
  

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