Which language is dominant in south India?

Telugu language
TamilKannadaMalayalamEnglish Language
South India/Official languages

Why is Tamil the mother of all languages?

Tamil scholar Devaneya Pavanar had established that Tamil is the primary classical language of the world, he said. “Root Tamil words exist in many languages of the world in various modifications but retaining the semantic meaning. Hence, Tamil has the status of the mother tongue in the world,” the CM said.

Which South Indian language is near Tamil?

Malayalam
The closest major relative of Tamil is Malayalam; the two began diverging around the 9th century AD.

What are the South Indian languages?

South Indian languages comprise one of the five Dravidian languages of Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu. Besides, these languages also serve as official languages for the concerning states and its governmental purposes.

Is Tamil a colloquial language or a written language?

Nowadays the colloquial written language appears mainly in school books and in passages of dialogue in fiction. Tamil is classed as a Dravidian language, and is one of the major Dravidian languages of South India.

How did Tamil language become isolated in India?

Tamil became isolated to India’s South as the Indo-Aryan language varieties such as the Hindi became more dominant in the North. Along with Sanskrit, Tamil is recogonised as ‘one of the two classical languages if India’. It has a rich historical tradition dating back more than 2000 years.

What is the Tamil word for mother?

Tamil has at least two words for mother that I know of. I don’t follow the colloquial slang and I am not fluent in Tamil, or Thamizh as it is called in the language itself. But I know a little bit about this. There is Amma, which means mother in a generic sense.