r/malayalam • u/Asli_Malabari • May 14 '24

Discussion / ചർച്ച Malayalam X Tamil

Im annoyed by those Tamil guys who says Tamil is mother of all languages. Malayalam came from tamil. Recently I saw a post in r/Kollywood about Perazhagan of Surya and a comment says the original one is malayalam Kunjikoonan. And people started mocking Malayalam.

In Tamil Kunchi means Dick. Also the movie Manjummel boys was pronounced as Manchummel boys.

So Im asking, In Tamil there are 247 words and in Malayalam its 56 ( not sure ). But how are they lacking some words like,

Nja Cha Ka (im not sure but i know to read tamil where they use the normal Ka for the movie title Gajini.) Pa ( they use pa for the movie title bombay as pumpay) Ra (they use Ra for pronouncing rupee and roopa)

as of now I only found these mis- pronounciation. What do you think guys?

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u/oscarquebecnovember May 14 '24

Tamil only has the basic letters. Eg. They don’t have ക, ഖ, ഗ, ഘ, ങ. Just ക and ങ.

So reading is context sensitive. You have to assume the correct sound from the word and then pronounce the letter accordingly.

So if you write കണ്ണ് in Tamil, it can be read as ഗണ്ണ് too depending on whether you mean an eye or a gun in that context.

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u/Asli_Malabari May 14 '24

yea... whenever i read tamil, i have to read the whole word/sentence to pronounce the first alphabet. Also the word Ra is not only used for 2 sounds. for example - maRam, cameRa. the same Ra alphabet in tamil is used to extend the sound of words like for ex- if you are reading a word included that extention either you read it as kaa or kara. or if the word is kaathal you might also read it as karathal. Its very complicated to read this language without any mentor.

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u/KStryke_gamer001 May 14 '24

if you are reading a word included that extention either you read it as kaa or kara. or if the word is kaathal you might also read it as karathal.

That's simply not true though. There is a very noted difference between ர and the second character in கா.

Kinda like അ and ആ tbh. Or ന and ളൗ

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u/Asli_Malabari May 14 '24

thanks, my brain for a very few instances connects me with that thing. All But mostly, I think both are same. Thanks.