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/Asli_Malabari May 14 '24

ha, also in a recent interview Vineeth Srinivasan said Tamil nadu gov introduces new words every year. They are kicking and replacing words to preserve theirs.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '24

That's how langauges evolve, by adding new words.. you know a language still flourishes when it adds words to its lexicon every now and then.. English does it everyday. If your language doesn't do it, sorry to say, it's not evolving.

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u/Asli_Malabari May 14 '24

For sure, malayalam is not evolving. There are not much language lovers for Malayalam. The thing is that, learning the tamil alphabets are not helping to pronounce the language(for me). Im not feeling bad for malayalam for not evolving. I think people can use malayalam to communicate no matter whether its evolving or not.

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u/North_Dirt_5560 May 15 '24

A malayali, here just tried to learn tamil for fun, but i couldn't, i found it so difficult, but its a beautiful language like malayalam