This Sanskrit/Dravidian construct is also another artificial one created by Colonists. The more correct one is there is Sanskrit and there are Prakrits. Sanskrit was the court language and the rest are in the provinces.
Telugu is developed around 600 AD as Desi and evolved to present form around 1300 AD. I think that all South Indian languages and parts of middle India are forms of Desi. The big difference is they have different scripts. Need to figure out why.
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So other languages could have evolved in a similar fashion from Sanskrit and Prakrit which accounts for common words between say Telugu and Gujarati.
Pandyan, I see Shambu has answered you. Another way of looking is how waste material is transformed into compost which is a useful product by removing the problem causing part via anaerobic digestion so will changing the script re-Indianize those folks.
Until King Edward forbade the use of French in his English Court the languag of he elite was French after teh Norman Conquest in 1066.
After that English developed in England by cutting the links to the conquest and the Continent. Similarly India has to Devanagarize Urdu. Most folks read Urdu in English script now on Internet. If that OK why is it not OK to Devnagarize it? Maybe they should be in Telugu considering the long association of Islamic rule and Deccan! Actualy Urdu was also called Deccani by the Persianised Mughals!
The West wont let that happen and claim discrimination. To that my answer is language has always changed its script as can be seen in history.
Telugu is developed around 600 AD as Desi and evolved to present form around 1300 AD. I think that all South Indian languages and parts of middle India are forms of Desi. The big difference is they have different scripts. Need to figure out why.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The period of Andhra history, between A.D.624 and A.D.1323, spanning over seven centuries, is significant for the sea-change it brought in all spheres of the human activity; social, religious, linguistic and literary. <b>During this period, Desi, the indigenous Telugu language, emerged as a literary medium overthrowing the domination of Prakrit and Sanskrit.</b> As a result, Andhradesa achieved an identity and a distinction of its own as an important constituent of Indian Cultural set-up.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Link: http://www.aponline.gov.in/quick%20links/h...ry_ancient.html
So other languages could have evolved in a similar fashion from Sanskrit and Prakrit which accounts for common words between say Telugu and Gujarati.
Pandyan, I see Shambu has answered you. Another way of looking is how waste material is transformed into compost which is a useful product by removing the problem causing part via anaerobic digestion so will changing the script re-Indianize those folks.
Until King Edward forbade the use of French in his English Court the languag of he elite was French after teh Norman Conquest in 1066.
After that English developed in England by cutting the links to the conquest and the Continent. Similarly India has to Devanagarize Urdu. Most folks read Urdu in English script now on Internet. If that OK why is it not OK to Devnagarize it? Maybe they should be in Telugu considering the long association of Islamic rule and Deccan! Actualy Urdu was also called Deccani by the Persianised Mughals!
The West wont let that happen and claim discrimination. To that my answer is language has always changed its script as can be seen in history.