This Kannadiga criticizes divion of the Telugu Nation

by Kayalvizhi Wed Jul 02, 2014 9:41 pm

It is a contradiction in terms to talk of increased autonomy for the states - linguistic states, mind you - and in the same breath to celebrate the history of the Sanskritization of Dravidian writing. There is a clear case to be made that the present predicament of the Telugus is due in no small measure to the fact that Telugu literature is heavily Sanskritized - perhaps more so than the literature of any other Dravidian language. There is hardly a word that Telugu writers are capable of coining today which is not Sanskrit, despite the fact that Telugu is a Dravidian language, not an Indo-Aryan language.
--- written by a Kannadiga

by confuzzled dude Wed Jul 02, 2014 9:53 pm

Kayalvizhi wrote:It is a contradiction in terms to talk of increased autonomy for the states - linguistic states, mind you - and in the same breath to celebrate the history of the Sanskritization of Dravidian writing. There is a clear case to be made that the present predicament of the Telugus is due in no small measure to the fact that Telugu literature is heavily Sanskritized - perhaps more so than the literature of any other Dravidian language. There is hardly a word that Telugu writers are capable of coining today which is not Sanskrit, despite the fact that Telugu is a Dravidian language, not an Indo-Aryan language.
--- written by a Kannadiga

Agree that telugu is heavily sanskritized but we still can eke out a few dravidian words like ooragaya, arugu (arangu), tala, pakka, pattu, tundu, ooru (uur), balli (palli) etc. without much difficulty.

This Kannadiga criticizes divion of the Telugu Nation

This Kannadiga criticizes divion of the Telugu Nation

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