Sunday, October 12, 2008
ENTE BASHA- my language
out of curiosity i enabled the transliteration part in the blog and the after effects are displayed for everyone to see. it is a strange feeling to see your mother tongue in the print. as it is this is not the correct script which is availabe in the print. well i thought i will pen down(correction-type ) a few things about my 'mathrubasha'. it is a language written in the same way as it is pronounced. that i think most of the dravidian languages are. but the best part is it is one of the most difficult languages to learn. it is said that some typical brain centers need to be aroused to pronounce certain words in the language. basically speaking pazham(banana) is kinda smallest word in malayalam. but pronouncing it correctly require some skill.same stands for most of the words. i know people who know all the other three south indian languages but struggles when comes to this one. there is a saying in malayalam which goes like this"you need to clean your tongue properly to speak good malayalam"-this is a tongue twisting languageis the abstract level interpretation. it is said that keralites as a group learn languages easily( dont know to quote any study as proof) but thriving of keralites anywhere in the world is the best example i can give. this is a language which has borrowed from all other dravidian languages. that is the reason with some effort we understand what others are speaking. but once speaking happens in malayalam it is greek and latin to the listener.
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Yup it sure is Greek and Latin apart from the words that are derived from Sanskrit.
Nice ode to Malayalam :)
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