07-31-2008, 06:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-31-2008, 06:58 PM by Bharatvarsh.)
A question for the Tamils from TN here, can you guys understand Yazhpanam (Jaffna) dialect or Batticaloa dialect or Eelam Tamizh in general without any trouble because I was checking info about Tamil dialects and came across this:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Umakanthan, London
I am a Tamil from India living in UK married to a Eelam Tamil born in Britain. A few years ago I met a Tamil granny from Marutius and was surpried she could speak in Tamil. She spoke a Tamil which is not spoken anymore in India. She had never been to India herself but her grandfather had told her they were from Thiruvannamaalai. She knew she belonged to the Vellala caste. I felt so glad to hear her speak in Tamil. Having had the fortune to have travelled to Sri Lanka, Eelam, Singapore and Malaysia I found that Tamil though seen as a monolithic linguistic group in terms of vocabulary, it is not. My mother cannot understand my wife's Tamil ( rustic Yazhpanam accent) nor can my wife understand my mothers Karaikudi accent. One beautiful word I like the Malaysian Tamil uses is the word 'Kootali' for friend. We don't use that in Tamilnadu though I remember hearing it used by old people when I was a child in the Sivaganga district. Just to finish of my blabbering,
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I only hear "maccha" used for friend in informal Tamil from TN, "nanban" being formal I think.
Also if you guys spoke to Singapore or Malaysia tamils, which accent did you find it closer to, TN or Eelam because in both countries the Tamils are from both places but with the TN stock being more numerous.
I watched Pothuraju which is Virumandi dubbed in Telugu, they used authentic Venkatagiri dialect which I had some trouble with if they went too fast, also I heard a new word "gindalu" which was subtitled as "discourage" that I never heard before, any Telugu people here know the origins of the word or where its used, i checked the dictionaries but couldn't find it. In my experience I can understand all Telugu dialects I heard so far except for a few words here and there if they go too fast.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Umakanthan, London
I am a Tamil from India living in UK married to a Eelam Tamil born in Britain. A few years ago I met a Tamil granny from Marutius and was surpried she could speak in Tamil. She spoke a Tamil which is not spoken anymore in India. She had never been to India herself but her grandfather had told her they were from Thiruvannamaalai. She knew she belonged to the Vellala caste. I felt so glad to hear her speak in Tamil. Having had the fortune to have travelled to Sri Lanka, Eelam, Singapore and Malaysia I found that Tamil though seen as a monolithic linguistic group in terms of vocabulary, it is not. My mother cannot understand my wife's Tamil ( rustic Yazhpanam accent) nor can my wife understand my mothers Karaikudi accent. One beautiful word I like the Malaysian Tamil uses is the word 'Kootali' for friend. We don't use that in Tamilnadu though I remember hearing it used by old people when I was a child in the Sivaganga district. Just to finish of my blabbering,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/t..._comments.shtml<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I only hear "maccha" used for friend in informal Tamil from TN, "nanban" being formal I think.
Also if you guys spoke to Singapore or Malaysia tamils, which accent did you find it closer to, TN or Eelam because in both countries the Tamils are from both places but with the TN stock being more numerous.
I watched Pothuraju which is Virumandi dubbed in Telugu, they used authentic Venkatagiri dialect which I had some trouble with if they went too fast, also I heard a new word "gindalu" which was subtitled as "discourage" that I never heard before, any Telugu people here know the origins of the word or where its used, i checked the dictionaries but couldn't find it. In my experience I can understand all Telugu dialects I heard so far except for a few words here and there if they go too fast.