What is your mother tongue ? What other languages you can read, write and speak ?

[bronxbull]

i was saying generally.

 

[JanjaWeed]

Are there any similarities between Kodava and Tulu ?

@JanjaWeed

Not much.. to be honest. Their language is a mixture of tulu, kannada & malayalam. They have their own culture & traditions. They are a pretty much progressive & affluent community. Perhaps Coorg is one place which provides maximum number of personnel to Indian military from Karnataka. If you remember.. a coorgi, Field Marshal Cariappa was the fist army chief of independent India & the only other field marshal apart from Manekshaw!

 

[bronxbull]

and hockey players too,

 

[telkon]

Got it

Since you are a language specialist, I hope you can answer few of my questions

Can you please provide info on following ?

• Origin of languages
• Origin of scripts
• Scriptless languages and their state at present
• Classification of languages

my friend, i'm no specialist i just love learning languages. your questions can only be answered by paleographs and linguists. nevertheless, let me try to answer them.
origins of language have been debated for several centuries and i can't say that there's any concensus on that subject.
origins of scripts may differ from script to script. but i can say that almost every modern alphabet was derived from phoenician alphabet. but there are also logographic writing systems like chinese, tomba or extinct scripts like egyptian hieroglyphs and cuneiform writing and its derivatives or mayan script. scientists can only speculate as to how scripts were invented. generally they say that it rose out of need to plan and count communal goods, as these communities got larger and larger.
scriptless languages are going to go extinct, for there is such thing like cultural imperialism. for example, after russians conquered siberia, in two centuries most of scriptless languages (some dialects of ket, many turkic languages and paleoasiatic languages to some extent) went extinct. same thing happened in north and south america after european conquests.
on your last question, it's impossible to classify languages in such short writing. besides, linguists themselves still battle over this problem generally it's agreed that there are indo-european (further deviating into indo-aryan, iranian and european), altaic (turkic, mongolic, tungusic, finno-ugrian), afro-asiatic (semitic, omotic, berber etc), bantu, san (or khoi-san), american native languages, austronesian, paleosiberian, sino-tibetan. but also there are proposed macrofamilies like amerindian or nostratic or na-dene. but of course they are only theories for now.

 

[kseeker]

Not much.. to be honest. Their language is a mixture of tulu, kannada & malayalam. They have their own culture & traditions. They are a pretty much progressive & affluent community. Perhaps Coorg is one place which provides maximum number of personnel to Indian military from Karnataka. If you remember.. a coorgi, Field Marshal Cariappa was the fist army chief of independent India & the only other field marshal apart from Manekshaw!

Whenever I hear about Coorg, it reminds me the film, Muthina Hara

 

[bronxbull]

kseeker,r u kodava?

 

[kseeker]

kseeker,r u kodava?

Naah, I am a GSB from Uttara Kannada district

 

[bronxbull]

ohh,

 

[JanjaWeed]

Whenever I hear about Coorg, it reminds me the film, Muthina Hara

Coorg is a nice hilly place, with beautiful landscapes & sceneries!
& about that movie song.. not a great fan of Kannada movies..

 

[W.11]

i can read, write and speak tilugu, malayalam, tamil, hindi, kannada, bengoli, konkani, marathi, Sanskrit, bhojpuri

im a true indian

 

[Desertfalcon]

I have a few questions for both Pakistanis and Indians. In your countries, does everyone speak Urdu and Hindi, respectively? Are almost all news and television programs for example, in Urdu and Hindi? Approximately what percentage of your countries population are fluent in these two languages? Is English more universal in both countries or are these two national languages? What is the main language that the militaries of Pakistan and India use? I would think it would make administration difficult if there are whole areas of either India or Pakistan that do not speak either Urdu/Hindi or English.

 

[neehar]

Dude...go read up on Indian history after independence....all these areas were under the Madras presidency...and by the way use some common sence ..you will get it.

what??!!

 

[SouthDesi]

Mother tongue- Telugu
can write- Telugu, Tamil, Hindi English and Korean
can speak- Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, English and Korean
Can read- Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, English and Korean
Can understand : Most of Kannada

 

[SHAMK9]

Mother Tongues- Pashto, Hindko and Urdu (All are spoken in our household)
write- English, Urdu and French
speak- English, Urdu, Hindko and french
understand- Pashto and Spanish

 

[PWFI]

Mother tongues: French and Punjabi
Understand and speak: Deutch and urdu.