Why is Kannada and Tamil similar?

Kannada and Tamil are among the 22 national languages listed in the Constitution of the Republic of India. They are similar languages and have descended from the Dravidian family of languages. Kannada is a South Dravidian language which is spoken by people of the Karnataka state of the Republic of India.

Is Tamil Telugu and Malayalam similar?

Malayalam. Malayalam was the west coast dialect of Tamil until about the 9th century ce. Unlike Tamil, and to a greater degree than Kannada and Telugu, Malayalam has liberally borrowed from Sanskrit not only words but even various forms of inflection. Malayalam does not have diglossia of the Tamil kind.

Is Telugu mutually intelligible with Tamil?

Tamil, Kannada and Telugu are not mutually intelligible (any pair of two among these three) unless one has had exposure to them. One can pick up the rest quickly if one knows any one of those languages, and may understand bits of it without exposure, but not more.

Can you differentiate between Telugu Malayalam and Kannada scripts?

I can’t differentiate between Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada scripts but I can differentiate between Tamil and Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Because Tamil has half of the consonants of Malayalam. Tamil is the only language that doesn’t have more consonants and less vowels.

How has the Tamil script evolved over time?

Over the next few centuries, the Chola-Pallava script evolved into the modern Tamil script. The Grantha and its parent script influenced the Tamil script notably. The use of palm leaves as the primary medium for writing led to changes in the script.

Why is Tamil so different from Malayalam?

Because Tamil has half of the consonants of Malayalam. Tamil is the only language that doesn’t have more consonants and less vowels. Tamil is the only language which protest Sanskrit script and make language pure. Eg: Tamil script doesn’t have Hindi vowel words like ‘ऋ’ (ru), ‘अं’ (an/am) and ‘अः’ (aha).

Why is the Tamil alphabet so similar to other languages?

The order of the alphabet (strictly abugida) in Tamil closely matches that of the nearby languages both in location and linguistics, reflecting the common origin of their scripts from Brahmi. The Tamil speech has incorporated many phonemes which were not part of the Tolkāppiyam classification.