The oldest still surviving language of the world!

 

Didn’t know they had a day for mother tongue language – the International Mother Language Day, which fell on 21st February this year and of course will fall on that date and month every year. On googling, I found out that it was mooted by the United Nations in 1999 to recognize and promote multilingual diversity of the world.

They seem to have a day for everything. The other day, I had written a post in this blog, saluting the all-spicy chicken, and later discovered that they had a day for the chickens, too! How nice! How very nice! And now when I was feeling all proud for having Tamil, which is the oldest existing language in the world, as my mother tongue, I got to know through a Tamil TV channel in Malaysia, that there is a day for the mother tongue, too. The news reader, a young Tamil lady, was telling or rather conveying about sending of children of Tamil parents to Tamil schools that exist in Malaysia, so that the Tamil Language does not die of, as had many ancient languages, Sadly, she failed to mention that Tamil is the oldest language in the world, I, being a proud Malaysian of Tamil origin, who started his education in a Tamil school, felt deeply disappointed,

 Anyway, a little info about the language of the Tamilians, Historic engravements in ancient times show that Tamil language existed about 5000 years ago. It was found spoken  commonly around the Godavari River in Southern India.  Tamil is called as a Dravidian language as Tamils were one of the tribes of the Dravidian family, which existed in southern India in ancient times. Linguists say there are touches of the Tamil language in many other languages of the world. The language of the Tamils can be summed up as The Ancient Main International Language! 

I am sure everyone of us is proud of his/her native language and desire to portray the beauty and the benefits of their own mother tongue. Sure, go ahead!