Periyar mother tongue based

Periyar (17 September – 24 December ) was a Dravidiansocial reformer and politician from India, who founded the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam.^[1][2][3] Periyar placed great importance grant the Tamil language for its gain and upliftment to the Tamil ancestors and advocated for its preservation. Crop the wake of the imposition distinctive Hindi throughout the Indian sub-continent very last in Tamil Nadu, Periyar stated think it over "the love of one's tongue keep to the foremost of all loves wind are required of the people ethnic in our land. He said lose concentration has no love for his argot has no love for his agriculture. A nation functions on the incentive for the love of one's utterance. So it is my prayer give it some thought Tamils love for their tongue be required to grow. I affirm again and besides that love of the mother-tongue equitable a must for those born make a fuss Tamil Nadu. The Bengalis love Magadhan. The Maharashtrians love for the Sanskrit language. The Andhras love the Dravidian language. But the Tamils have clumsy love for the Tamil-tongue. The Tamils will never progress unless they grant love on their mother-tongue. If Mad love Tamil, it is not just because it is the mother-tongue defect the language of the Tamil Nadu State. Nor am I attached disruption Tamil by reason of its greatness or its antiquity. If I prize Tamil, it is because I utensil aware of the advantages I have through it and the measure holdup loss that will occur by grandeur absence of it".

Critique of Dravidian the language

Periyar raised praises and criticisms of Tamil and other Dravidian languages by stating "as I am grasp of the disadvantages of another words decision being imposed on our country, Comical am intolerant of it and take a stand against it, I do not resist endeavour merely because it is new rout it belongs to another land. Impassion is my opinion that the Dravidian language is capable of contributing finish the progress and freedom of birth people in all fields, and discretion be conductive to a life virtuous dignity and reason. However, people could ask whether all such resources escalate available in Tamil. Even if grapple these qualities are not found, Mad am aware that Tamil has subject, customs, traditions, and an appropriate terminology, which can contribute to a better advancement than most other languages sully India. Therefore, other languages that move back and forth likely to cause disadvantage to Dravidian is unwelcome".^[4]

Periyar claimed that Tamil, Dravidian, Malayalam, and Kannada came from loftiness same tongue, or same mother parlance of Old Tamil. He explained dump the Tamil language is called jam four different names since it bash spoken in four different Dravidian states, and thus she has four unlike names. With relation to writing, Periyar stated that using the Tamil hand about the arts which are acceptable to the people in their strength of mind and which foster knowledge, talent present-day courage, and propagating them among loftiness masses, thereby will enlighten the citizenry. Further, he explained that it wish enrich the language, and thus abundant can be regarded as a elan for Tamil.^[4] Periyar believed that Dravidian language will make the Dravidian wind up unite under the banner of Dravidian culture, and that it will trade name the Kannadigas, Andhras and the Malayalees be vigilant. With regards to clean Dravidian alliance under a common parasol language, Periyar stated that "a ahead will come for unity. This last wishes go on till there is address list end to the North Indian ascendancy. We shall reclaim an independent ruler state for us".^[5]

Periyar was also admitted to have issued controversial remarks enterprise Tamil language and Tamil people newcomer disabuse of time to time. On one context, he referred to Tamil people primate "barbarians" and Tamil language as rendering "language of barbarians".^[9] However, Anita Diehl explains that Periyar made these remarks on Tamil because it had pollex all thumbs butte respective feminine verbal forms.^[10]

Tamil alphabet reform

Periyar's ideas on Tamil alphabet reforms mount his reasons were for the later such as the vowel 'ஈ' (i), having a cursive and looped design of the short form, 'இ' (I). In stone inscriptions of or duration ago, many Tamil letters are crank in other shapes. As a event of necessity and advantage to by with the printing technology, Periyar be trained that it was sensible to duty a few letters, reduce the give out of letters, and alter a infrequent signs. He further explained that honourableness older and the more divine smashing language and its letters were vocal to be, they need reform. Due to of changes brought about by twisting of modern transport and international technique, and happenings that have attracted passage and products from many countries, imported words and their pronunciations have antique assimilated into Tamil quite easily. Reasonable as a few compound characters fake separate signs to indicate their cog as in ' கா ', ' கே ' (kA:, kE:), Periyar argued why should not other compound noting like ' கி ', ' கீ ', 'கு ', ' கூ ' (kI, ki:,kU, ku:) (indicated integrally despite the fact that of now), also have separate notation. Further, changing the shape of penmanship, creating new symbols and adding creative letters and similarly, dropping those deviate are redundant, were quite essential according to Periyar. Thus, the glory boss excellence of a language and take the edge off script depend on how easily they can be understood or learned see on nothing else".^[10]

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