Why Sanskrit is not used in India?

One of the reasons for Sanskrit being limited to a small circle of people was the narrow outlook of pandits. They never allowed the language to reach the common people. So, India today does not have Sanskrit as its first language, like French in Francophone countries and Arabic in West Asia.

Is Sanskrit is derived from Tamil?

No. The Sanskrit language did not originate from Tamil. But both the languages mutually coexisted for several millineum. The Tamil language is the mother of all south Indian Dravidian languages and the Sanskrit language is the mother of all north Indian Indo Aryan languages.

Which is the oldest language in the world Sanskrit or Tamil?

The Tamil language is recognized as the oldest language in the world and it is the oldest language of the Dravidian family. This language had a presence even around 5,000 years ago. According to a survey, 1863 newspapers are published in the Tamil language only every day.

Is Sanskrit similar to Tamil?

Sanskrit is syntactically much similar to Tamil which shows a common race with an inherent identical thought process who developed both the languages. Both are inherently SOV order languages, but allowing free word order complemented by a rich system of declensions/compounding (Sanskrit) or agglutinations (Tamil).

Does Malayalam come from Sanskrit?

Malayalam, the language of Kerala, is part of the Dravidian language family, though it has grown a thick top coat of Sanskrit. These Sanskrit words have been adapted to the sound system of a Dravidian language in exactly the way the first Prakrits spoken by the earlier people of the Rig Vedic North-west were.

What is the difference between Tamil and Sanskrit?

Tamil was officially declared to be the oldest language on the globe, and it is nearly as spoken as Italian. Although both of them date back 5,000 years, Sanskrit is a sacred language of religious worship. It is not used in every-day speech. However, it is to notice that neither of Tamil nor Sanskrit derive from each other.

Why is the Tamil language being opposed in India?

It is being opposed most strongly by politicians from the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil language is not derived from Sanskrit and many there see the promotion of the language as a move by Hindu nationalist groups to impose their culture on religious and linguistic minorities.

Where is Sanskrit spoken in India?

It’s one of the official languages in only one Indian state, Uttarakhand in the north, which is dotted with historical Hindu temple towns. According to the last census, 14,000 people described Sanskrit as their primary language, with almost no speakers in the country’s north-east, Orissa, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and even Gujarat.

Why is Sanskrit our mother language?

“It’s our mother language, the root of all our languages,” says Usha Ram, the school principal. “All over the world people try to preserve their traditions. Why not in India?” Sanskrit is a language which belongs to the Indo-Aryan group and is the root of many, but not all Indian languages.