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It makes sense though, coz' Sanskrit arrived in India with the invasion of Aryans. Dravidian civilization must have developed an independent culture and language of their own. And Tamil scripts doesn't resemble Sanskrit even remotely.
Just my thought.
Infact, if I am not mistaken there is even a Dravidian language spoken in Pakistan - Brahui
Divya already explained it the Tamil is the oldest living language, but Sanskrit is pre-vedic. Although the written scripts may be different, but most of the Indian languages are descendant of Sanskrit only (including Tamil). Why do you think prosperity is Mangal in Hindi/ Bengali/ Assamese/ Oriya and Mangalam in Sankrit/ Tamil?
Other examples:
Sorrow: Dukh - Hindi/ Bengali/ Assamese/ Oriya, Dukham- Sanskrit/ Telegu/ Tamil
Happiness: Sukh- Hindi/Assamese/ Bengali/ Oriya; Sukham: Sanskrit/ Tamil/ Telugu
Peace: Shanti- allmost all Indian language
If you think hard, you'll see thousands of such example. This is one link which strongly denounce either the Aryan invassion theory or Sanskrit being a language of the Aryans.
India and China are where the most significant ancient culture and history settles down...
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Hembo,
there is another phrase for prosperity - "selva chezhippu".thuyaram could be a rough equivalent for sorrow. inbam could be said for happiness. amaidhi can be taken as peace. Tamil experts may be able to give you better equivalents. However, I do agree that colloquial Tamil has quite a few loan words from Sanskrit. Calling Tamil a child of Sanskrit just based on some words, IMHO, is taking a very narrow view.
Nonetheless, while there are no readily detectable genealogical connections, there are strong areal features linking Dravidian with the Indo-Aryan languages. Dravidian languages show extensive lexical (vocabulary) borrowing, but only a few traits of structural (either phonological or grammatical) borrowing, from Indo-Aryan, whereas the Indo-Aryan shows more structural features than lexical borrowings from the Dravidian languages.[4] The Dravidian impact on the syntax of Indo-Aryan languages is considered far greater than the Indo-Aryan impact on Dravidian grammar. Some linguists explain this asymmetry by arguing that Middle Indo-Aryan languages were built on a Dravidian substratum.
Sanskrit's greatest influence, presumably, is that which it exerted on languages of India that grew from its vocabulary and grammatical base; for instance Hindi, which is a "Sanskritized register" of the Khariboli dialect. However, all modern Indo-Aryan languages as well as Munda and Dravidian languages, have borrowed many words either directly from Sanskrit (tatsama words), or indirectly via middle Indo-Aryan languages (tadbhava words). Words originating in Sanskrit are estimated to constitute roughly fifty percent of the vocabulary of modern Indo-Aryan languages, and the literary forms of (Dravidian) Malayalam and Kannada. Literary texts in Telugu are lexically Sanskrit or Sanskritized to an enormous extent, perhaps seventy percent or more.
Sanskrit is prized as a storehouse of scripture and the language of prayers in Hinduism. Like Latin's influence on European languages and Classical Chinese's influence on East Asian languages, Sanskrit has influenced most Indian languages. While vernacular prayer is common, Sanskrit mantras are recited by millions of Hindus and most temple functions are conducted entirely in Sanskrit, often Vedic in form. Of modern day Indian languages, while Hindi and Urdu tend to be more heavily weighted with Arabic and Persian influence, Nepali, Bengali, Assamese, Konkani and Marathi still retain a largely Sanskrit and Prakrit vocabulary base. The Indian national anthem, Jana Gana Mana, is written in a literary form of Bengali (known as sadhu bhasha), Sanskritized so as to be recognizable, but still archaic to the modern ear. The national song of India Vande Mataram was originally a poem composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and taken from his book called 'Anandamath', is in a similarly highly Sanskritized Bengali. Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada also combine a great deal of Sanskrit vocabulary. Sanskrit also has influence on Chinese through Buddhist Sutras. Chinese words like 剎那 chànà (Skt. क्षन kṣana 'instantaneous period of time') were borrowed from Sanskrit.
Divya already explained it the Tamil is the oldest living language, but Sanskrit is pre-vedic. Although the written scripts may be different, but most of the Indian languages are descendant of Sanskrit only (including Tamil).
Why do you think prosperity is Mangal in Hindi/ Bengali/ Assamese/ Oriya and Mangalam in Sankrit/ Tamil?
Other examples:
Sorrow: Dukh - Hindi/ Bengali/ Assamese/ Oriya, Dukham- Sanskrit/ Telegu/ Tamil
Happiness: Sukh- Hindi/Assamese/ Bengali/ Oriya; Sukham: Sanskrit/ Tamil/ Telugu
Peace: Shanti- allmost all Indian language
If you think hard, you'll see thousands of such example. This is one link which strongly denounce either the Aryan invassion theory or Sanskrit being a language of the Aryans.
Ask madamjee she will definetly vote for making Italian mother tougue of Indians as well as national language....
Reviving Sanskrit should be given impetus by the Indian Govt - of course the whole national language thing is rubbish. Can't force a language down anyone's throats. But the Israelis did revive Hebrew - so we too should work toward reviving Sanskrit.
Tamil and by extension all the four Southern Languages are NOT derived from Sanskrit. Their development is parallel to that of Sanskrit.
All these examples are a result of the Dravidian Languages just borrowing words from Sanskrit (or is it the other way around ??) and not as a result of derivation.
Even among the four languages (Tamil, Mal, Kannada and Telugu) the degree of Sanskrit borrowing varies - it is the mot among Malayalam and the least in Tamil.