Tamil is an ancient spoken by the people of Lemuria, Indus valley and continued till today. The name 'Tamil' was called as 'Thamizha', 'Thiramila' and 'Dravida' at various times in the past.
A scholar on various languages including English, French, Latin apart from many Indian wrote 'Tamil was a developed language with grammar when others started their speach'.
It seems that the people of Lemuria had good knowledge on many fields. Their knowledge was recorded in books (Palm leafs). We understand from the available ancient books that there was an authorising acadamy first at kabadapuram, then at Madurai (Mudhal and Idai Sangams), both in Lemuria to justify the books. But, most of such books were lost while the land was drowned. Most of the knowledge treasures have gone.
The time of Indus valley civilisation was much later than the Lemuria erosion period. The layout and other civic facilities in Indus valley clearly shows the lineage of Lemuria people. The writing passion never vanished among Tamils. We can understand this from the establishment of third academy (kadai Sangam) at the present Madurai before 200 B.C and continued till 200 A.D. We are having many litterateurs authorised by the third Sangam. So, writing practice would have been there during Indus valley period also.
We must note that Tamil scripts were changed several times in the past. The present average Tamil youths can not read fully the scripts written even 500 years before. Then, how they can read the scripts belonging to Indus valley people of 5000 years old.
We are having thousands of old books in palm leaves even today unattended. The available old books are mentioning about many other ancient books connected to architecture and other sciences. But, we could learn the names alone with out the contents.
'Anu' is a word used in ancient Tamil litterateurs to refer atom. How they can have a word with out knowing the subject?
There are many names suffixing with 'UR' to represent a village or a city in Tamilnadu, India. 'UR' means a place in Tamil where people are residing. Bangalore, Mangalore, Nellur, Kolapur in south and Sholapur, Kolapur, Kanpur and Nagpur are few examples to mention in India. Singapore, Kolalambur and Lahore are few cities in other countries to mention the usage of 'UR'. The holy Bible also refers to a place called 'UR' from where Abraham went to Jerusalem.
There are more than 200 Tamil words in English with a little difference. Sanskrit also borrowed many Tamil words to it's use.
Tamil is a rich language which can stand on it's own. It's richness can be found from many meanings for a word and vice verse.
Tamil had more than 18 philosophical books. They were referred to be called as 'Agamams'. But we are having only one: that too in Sanskrit. What happened?
Our search will continue.
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