Hi friends, as I am out of the state I am not well-informed
about the current affairs, especially Hindi negation issues of Tamilnadu. Of
course, I can learn from the digital media, but I don’t have enough Time to
scroll the news. Indeed face book and LinkedIn is ruling me.
When I came across trolls in FB and YouTube, I was repelled.
I also heard that, Hindi texts have been added to the Kilometer stones of
National highways.
Prior inscribing, I would like to convey “Sorry in Advance”
if my Views are contradictory. India is a secular country where we can find
different religions, languages, traditions and customs. If we go out of our
Nation, we are called as “Indians” not as “Tamils” or “Malayalis”. Let me put forward the history of Tamil and Hindi.
Tamil
Tamil is one of the oldest Dravidian languages widely spoken
by the people of Tamilnadu, Pudhucherry and Sri lanka. It is also a recognized
minority language of the countries like Malaysia, Mauritius and South Africa.
Being an official language of Tamilnadu and Pudhucherry, it
is acknowledged as one of the Languages of Education system in Malaysia along with
Malay, English and Mandarin.
I take pride to mention that, Tamil is one of the 22
official languages of India.
A report states that Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions of 500 BC
have been discovered in Adichanallur, an Archaeological site in Thoothukudi
district of Tamilnadu.
The Sangam literature, an earliest Literature of Tamilnadu
is dated from ca. 300 BC to AD 300. This relates the existence of Tamil language over 3000 years ago.
Thirukkural, one of the classic literature of Tamil
consists of 1330 Kurals dealing with the daily virtues of an Individual.
Authored by Thiruvalluvar, it is one of the significant works written on
morality and secular ethics.
In the year 1997 and 2005,UNESCO Memory of the World
register acknowledged that one among the earliest manuscripts from India is
written in Tamil language.
During the Portuguese establishment (1498- 1661) in India,
Portuguese Christian Missionaries issued a Tamil prayer book called “Thambiraan
Vanakkam” thus making Tamil as the first Indian language to be published.
According to the Hindu ethics, Tamil was framed out by the
Lord Shiva and Tamil people worship Lord Murugan as their Tamil God.
The Ascent of the Tamil varies from district to district and
that adds beauty to the language. Tamil has 12 Vowels, 18 consonants and one
special character. Tamil vowels and consonants combine to form 216 compound
Characters, giving the Total of 247 Characters (12+18+1(12*18)).
Hindi
Hindi is the Official language of Government of India. It is
an extensively spoken language in the major Indian States such as Bihar,
Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan,
Uttarkhand and Utter Pradesh.
The Best thing about Hindi is it is one of the four most
spoken languages in the World, while other languages include English, Spanish
and Mandarin.
Hindi is the official language of Fiji Republic and it is
also spoken broadly by the Madheshis(People who are migrated from northern part
of India) of Nepal.
Hindi is spoken in other countries like Nepal, USA, Fiji,
South Africa, Suriname, Uganda, UK, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore and
Trinidad and Tobago.
Hindi, considered as a descendant of sanskrit is written in devanagari (Alpha-syllabary) script. This script consists of 11 Vowels and 33
Consonants & is written from left to right.
Hindi literature is divided into four styles such as
Bhakti(Devotional), Shringar (Beauty), Virgatha (Braveness of the Warriors) and
Adhunik(modern).
Semantically, Hindi and Urudu are the two archives of the same Language. Hindi uses Sanskrit words
whereas Urudu uses Arabic-Persian words.
Hindi is an expressive language and it conveys emotions in
Gentle words. Initially, Hindi arose as Apabhramsha and later by 10th
century, it became stable.
The renowned poets of Hindi literature are Tulsidas who
wrote Ramcharitamanas and Kabir whose writings influenced Hinduism’s Bhakti
movement.
The remarkable Literature of Hindi includes Guru Granth
Sahib, also called as Adi Granth is more than a Scripture of Sikhs. They
respect the Granth(Holy book of Sikhs) as their living Guru.
Hope I didn’t make you bored by taking back to the Indian
History. Both Hindi and Tamil have its own significance. While Tamil is the oldest among Dravidian languages, it is easy to learn & so everybody
prefers to learn Tamil. Besides this, Hindi is spoken by the major states of
India. It is useful to learn Hindi while travelling across India.
To me, both Hindi and Tamil are the stepping stone to meet
the new people, new environment, enjoy
the new culture and traditions. Multi lingual skills are an added essence to
one’s resume as well as the Life.
The Travelers has no limits and everyone likes to travel
away from their Home town, by pausing their day to day life and they tend find
the Happiness in Travel. They feel convenient when they come across the
Travelling Location in their Mother tongue.
This helps them to avoid much confusion
as they are away from their own people. I agree with this but I will not give
up my “Thaai Mozhi” for the sake of others. I feel Proud to be a Tamilian.
