Tamizh My Mother Tongue..!!!

How many of you’ll know your mother tongue? At least how many of you’ll use them in daily life ?

Easy question to be asked, but difficult one to be answered. Why is that so?

Let it be for our ethnic pride or our root. We do believe that our children’s future lies in the close embrace of English. It is the language that has allowed us to conquer the global market. English is language opportunity, the language that brings the world together. But also don’t forget your roots. One must be proud of his or her mother tongue. English educated us to face the Englishmen.

In these situations, mother tongues are slowly disappearing from the new generation’s memory. Children nowadays are well verse in English and some do not know what their mother tongue is. Parents who neglect to preserve this and eloping into the world of English.

Learn the value of our language, a language that is the oldest in this world. A language that existed far before the BC’s and AC’s that’s “Thamizh”.We should take the initiative to teach our kids that it is important to get along and get ahead with our mother tongue.

In English-language school the pressure that often requires unlearning your mother tongue. English is also the default benefactor of our multi-ethnic urban culture. English is now the new mother tongue, reigning supreme even within our homes. It is easy to blame the schools, but it is more often we – the urban professional class ,who have spurned the language of our childhood. We’re busy teaching our kids English nursery rhymes and their ABCs.

Where did Bharathiyar songs go, where did Thirukkural of Thiruvalluvar have gone hidding. How many aphabets are in Thamizh ? Do you knwo Tamizh also has its own vowels ?

A simple beauty of Thamizh,

What is Thirukkural ?

Answer: "After piercing a hole in a mustard seed, the seven seas of the world have been buried in , and made as a small capsule, that is called Thirukkural." Means - Thirukkural, though it looks small, it contains lot of great information’s

Thirukkural consists of 1330 two line (consisting of 7 words) phrase or stanza divided into 133 chapters under three sections. Thirukkural does not belong or speak about any particular religion or caste. It is a common bible for the Tamils. - Thirukkural by Thiruvalluvar

We had great poets and writers that expressed Thamizh wonderfully that if you translate them into English the meaning differ a lot. By this we are neglecting everything of our own mother tongue. Our mother tongues might go extinct, if it’s not practiced from now.

Tamil is a very ancient language and is known as the Eldest sister of Dravidian languages. Other sisters are Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

 “A different language is a different vision of life,” as said by Italian director Frederico Fellini, but I can’t help wondering what the price of this changing ‘vision of life’ will be if Thamizh is not preserved for the future. It would be a tragic of not knowing it at all. It’s not right to disconnect from your own roots and forgetting your ethnicity.

You could only appreciate the language in its own style and words. We should not hate or despise any language. At the same time we should also feel proud of our mother tongue and I am proud to be a Thamizhan better to say a Thamizha-lachi.

"Thamizhanan endru sollada thalai nimirndu nillada". one of Bharathiyar words..

Read this article at this site http://hemanththiru.blogspot.com/2010/09/tamils-antiquity-and-new-golden-age.html  - describes about Thamizh.