About the Tamil language 

*Love to Tamilnadu from a Bengali speaker...Tamizh is our pride.*

Tamil (Thamizh) is one of the most fascinating languages in the world, and I am obsessed with ancient cultures, especially the theorized landmass which is said to be the original start of civilization, Kumari Kandam. Vanakkam to Tamil's, enakku konjam konjam Thamizh teriyum, ungalai santhithathil magizhchi 🙏

எங்கள் தமிழ் மொழியின் பெருமையை சிறப்பாக எடுத்து உரைத்ததற்கு தமிழ் பேசும் நல்லுள்ளங்கள் சார்பாக மனமார்ந்த நன்றிகளை தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறோம்

I am a Telugu speaker and I also love Tamil History and its kings like Cholas, Cheras, and Pallavas. My soul was made to be born as South Indian on this Earth🙏🙏🙏

Well done. It's been many years since I lived, studied, & spoke in the Tamil World. Thank you for bringing back those sounds & mental images.

Потрясающое видео! Благодарю тебя за работу! Тамил является моим самым любимым языком индии!! Привет из аргентины 🇦🇷🇦🇷

I am not a Tamilian, but still respect and love Tamil language a lot

நானும் தமிழன் தான் தமிழின் இனிமையும் பெருமையும் ஞாலம் எங்கும் பரவட்டும் வாழ்க தமிழ் வளர்க தமிழ் 🙏🙏

Thamizh is our Pride..Love from Hindi speaker... 🙂🙏

வாழ்க தமிழ்🖤

சைவத்தமிழ் , பைந்தமிழ் , இயற்றமிழ் , இசைத்தமிழ் என்றும் , இலக்கணங்களும், சொற்சுவை, பொருட்சுவையும் நிறைந்த , எல்லாம் வல்ல ஈசனார் அருளிய தமிழே உன்னை வணங்கி பெருமிதம் கொள்கிறேன் !! THANK YOU SO MUCH JuLingo to showcase a wonderful video about our Language which is our Life ❤

We are Tamil. We are not Indian, but we are citizens of India. And also we are citizens of Sri Lanka, Singapore , and Malaysia. We want to identify as Tamils. We are so proud to be as Tamils.( not Dravidian) 👍🙏🏻💪

I'm from Tamil Nadu 🇮🇳 Today outsiders knowing the existence of our Tamil culture than our Indians, great to see that .

As a tamilian, hats off to your research, unbiased presentation and excellent pronunciation of the alphabets !

Thanks for supporting our Tamil language, which is the Oldest language in the world 👏👍❤

Tamil is like springs water of imagination. Tamil language shows equality, honesty,culture, compassion and valour. தமிழ் வாழ்க

Thank you so much for making this !!!!! Tamil is one of my favorite languages. the script is by far the most beautiful in the world.

தமிழ் என்றுமே தமிழ்தான் தமிழ் திராவிட மொழி கிடையாது திராவிட மொழி என்று திணிக்கப்படுகிறது தமிழ் என்றுமே தனித்துவமானது என்றும் தமிழ் எதிலும் தமிழ்... வாழ்க பல்லாண்டு பல்லாண்டு பல்லாயிரத்தாண்டு 🙏🙏🙏

Tamil first letter அ has one specialty, if you want to write any language letters that language letters should written using straight line(➖) , cross line (+) , circle (o) or curve shape Tamil first letter (அ) has all these shape which symbolizes if you learn tamil you can learn any language in the world easily

Sister there is also another fact about tamil:. We know அ-ஒள is called as uyir ezhuthukkal. Do you know why it's called as uyir ezhuthukkal? The only thing which helps us to survive is air .All these letters are born from air not by the lips or tongue. Thanks for posting such video. நன்றி சகோதரியே🙏 வாழ்க தமிழ் ! வளர்க தமிழ்நாடு!

Greetings my fellow Tamizh brothers and sister! Greetings from Kerala!

As an Italian currently studying Indian languages & cultures at university, I have to commend the accuracy of this video and the effort that must be behind it. Great content, Julie!

I am proud Tamilian from Sri Lanka

Nice to see my language getting more recognition.....Im a half but tamil is my mother tongue ❤️

*omg u pronounced "vanakkam" very very perfectly* 👌👌👍 _Really thnx sis for shared our language_ 😊😊

The characters of Thai,Malay and Indonesian looks very similar to Tamil, this is probably because their Languages were infact inspired by Tamil during the Chola Kingdoms influence in South East Asia

One of the best analysis ever seen about Tamil Language from a foreign person. Great job.

Congratulations Julie for an excellent video on my language. You make me a prouder Tamizhan, living in South America!

The oldest language ,but always young language forever.proud to be a "தமிழன் "

Korean and Japanese language has similarities with Tamil language

தமிழே போற்றி போற்றி❤❤❤

I’m really interested in ancient civilisations so that is why Tamil amazes me. It has connections to many languages and root words exist in 100s of languages including English

The Sangam period was patronized by the Pandyas, who were one of the three great Kingdoms in Tamilnadu. Tholkaappiyam is the oldest book we have now, by which the grammar is based and due to the archaeological excavations it is also proved that tamil is 5000 years old.

Love From SRILANKA. தமிழ் 🥰

Wonderful -- such a lot of fascinating content here. You've done a great job. I had to keep pausing the video to examine the charts and maps. Perhaps a little more on the grammar would have been even better.

As a proud Tamil speaking Hindu from South Africa, I want to thank you for propagating my language. I just want to mention though, that there is far, far more than 70 million people that speak Tamil. Also to add that the modern day Korean language has adopted a lot of Tamil words, such as Uppuh, Amah, etc.

My father being a Tamizhan Never taught me Tamizh but told many beautiful stories I don't know what personal reasons he have but I wished many times he would have taught me I currently learning Russian it is taking more time than i expected so i really hope one day i will successfully learn Tamizh

Marathi people (90 million of us) have deep roots with the Dravidian culture so much so that we have two alphabets that we speak that we borrowed from Tamil. We also follow the Tamil/South Indian Hindu Calendar.

I am Tamil, but live outside India. Great to know about my mother tongue.

Nice to hear from you TAMIZH. Worthfull video. Great effort and THANKS. Moreover, nice Video label with our traditional wear saree. Keep rocking

Thanks 🙏 Julie for making a vedio on a Dravidian language. Honestly I am telling, among the Dravidian languages my most favourite language is Tamil , it is one of the classical language in the world which has a rich history , literature and Grammar.

Felt very proud hearing a foreigner speaking about the Tamil language. In today's time, not many Indians know the rich history and the greatness of the Tamil languages. Love from Tamilakkam. Tamil isn't just a language for us. It is our culture, our heritage, our way-of life and the entire Tamil history in the form of a langauge. தமிழன் என்று சொல்லடா, தலை நிமிர்ந்து நில்லடா

Julie, I learned a few years ago a fascinating fact: there is a very old but still very visible connexion between Finno-Ugric and Tamil languages (!)...It's absolutely flooring! Look into this, it's crazy (even if the shared vocabulary and grammar isn't a big lot, yet it's incredible).

Great work. Glad I came across your channel. Tamil is beautiful language. The finesse it can carry for the context is just amazing. Would be good if an 'extended' part of the video could cover the tamil numbering system too. :) Keep up the good work (y)

You are amazing! I have admired the Tamil language, the culture and skills of the Tamils. I believe the largest hoard of Roman gold coins is in the Tamil lands. The major rulers were the Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas and the Tamils produced fine textiles, jewellery, spices, tiles, sculpture which were in high demand even in Rome. The late A K Ramanujan of Chicago U wrote a marvelous book called "Poems of Love and War". The first Tamil grammar was the Tholkappiyam. Thiruvalluvar's Thirukkural is a marvelous collection of advice, morals, ethics. The Harappans (most likely Tamils, as you mentioned) had no Kings, no weapons of war. They traded as far as the Oxus (Amu Darya) river. The Tamils enrich humanity

My Mother Tongue😍💘 ❤ from Tamilnadu, South India.

I'm Sri Lankan Tamil Actually more people don't know the history Even you are a foreigner you know well about Tamil 👌🤝

I have never seen anyone better than her explaining about Tamil. A well researched and articulated video. A good diction and presentation.

Nice video!👏 4:57 And! You've left a (three dots/small circles) letter in Tamil alphasyllabary script i.e. *ஃ* (pronounced as ≈ *Ahkh* ). It is neither a vowel(உயிர்/Uyir= Soul) nor a consonant(மெய்/Mey= Body). It is called as "Aytha Ezhuthu (ஆய்த எழுத்து)".

Looks like you missed the recent excavation. Porunai river excavation dates Tamil back to 3200 years. Potteries were found with Tamili inscription. Tamil is older than Sanscrit. Tamil is the only language which can be spoken without mixing any Sanskrit words. Tamil scholars, Tamil teachers, Tamil enthusiast can talk pure Tamil. Sanskrit scholars influenced Tamil by mixing Sanskrit words to create new language like they did to create malayalam, but Tamil people did not leave their mother tongue and continued to speak Tamil with some Sanskrit words as the Sanskrit scholars are highly influential in the education system and injected Sanskrit words.

This is fascinating. I was doing a Master's for Linguistics and I thought it was kind of useless but then again your video proves me wrong. I found your channel today, keep up the good work!

Tonnes of information, took me back to my learning days.... Well collated and presented..... Clap clap 👏👏

please make a one video for Tamizh and Korean language culture similarity... it's very interesting..

கீழடி நாகரீகத்தின் முதல் இடமா என் தமிழ் அழகான மொழி மிக்க நன்றி சகோதரி

I am SO GLAD that I found your channel. I find this sort of thing goosebump inducing and even emotionally affecting. Language is, after all, the crux of who we are. You can't really understand a people until you understand at least part of their language. I took French in my U.S. college; not a long course, certainly not an immersive one, but I found myself thinking differently and mixing French in with my English. And with the Spanish I'd taken earlier. In fact, Spanish had the same effect on me. I am too old now probably to learn a lot of different languages, but I am determined to know some Russian and my people's native language, Irish Gaelic. Thank you for this channel. Always nice to discover a kindred spirit.

Excellent job on covering the Tamil language! Thank you! 🙏🏻 You've put a lot of time in researching Tamil which is phenomenal. I appreciate your hard work! Just sharing my thoughts on few of the things covered in this video: 1. Agathiyar (also spelt Akathiyar) & Agastya - There are two versions of the origins of this legendary person: Tamil version and Vedic version. Tamil version says that he's an ethnic Tamil sage moved from ancient Tamilakam (modern Tamil Nadu and Kerala) to the North to spread Hinduism. Vedic version says he's an Aryan sage who's the author of several hymns of the Rig veda. It is possible that Agathiyar and Agastya were two unrelated persons later merged together. The Tamil name, Agathiyar, comes from the Tamil root word 'akam' which means many things like 'mind', 'within', inside', 'self', 'house' etc... So the Tamil name Agathiyar means 'one who realises self' which is the core concept of all the Indian spiritual schools. Whereas the Sanskrit name, Agastya, comes from the Sanskrit root 'aj' which means 'brighten'. So the Sanskrit name, Agastya, means 'one who brightens'. As you can see, both Tamil and Sanskrit names have their own derivations. Thus, Agathiyar and Agastya must be 2 distinct persons later merged because their names and their roles in history are similar. 2. Tamil without Sanskrit vocabulary: Writing and speaking Tamil without Sanskrit is totally possible. There are Tamil equivalent words for every Sanskrit words used today. In fact, Tamil has the least Sanskrit influence of all the languages in India. Anyone who studied Tamil in schools and knows decent Sanskrit can write pure Tamil effortlessly. I am one of those people. I know decent amount of basic Sanskrit and I can easily identify Sanskrit words used in Tamil language today. I simply substitute Sanskrit words with the Tamil equivalents. Why? Well, I personally find pure Tamil beautiful, elegant, and mystical. Nothing more nothing less. :) 3. Use of 'zh' for ழ்: I don't know the reason either. I guess, it's simply used to emphasise that 'ழ்' should not be pronounced like 'L'. 🤷🏻‍♂

திராவிடம் என்று ஒரு மொழியும் இருந்ததில்லை ஒரு இனமும் இருந்ததில்லை இங்கே தமிழ்தான் ஆதி மொழி. அதனால் இது திராவிட மொழி குடும்பம் இல்லை தமிழ் மொழி குடும்பம் தான்.

The last part was actually not about purifying Tamil. It's a protest against language imposition.

A great video! A lot of work has gone into its making! Kudos to your efforts! 👏👏👏

Great Video! But actually, you can speak and write Tamil without the influence of Sanskrit. Yes we have and use many Sanskrit loan words in Tamil since then, but we do have our own Tamil words for the Sanskrit loan words we are using today. Some of the examples: King : Rajan/Raja (Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Raja (Sanskrit) - Mannar (Original Tamil word) Sun : Sooriyan (Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Surya (Sanskrit) - Aadhavan (Original Tamil word) Moon : Chandhiran(Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Chandra (Sanskrit) - Vennila/Nila (Original Tamil word) Sky: Aagayam(Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Akasha (Sanskrit) - Vaanam (Original Tamil word) Night: Rathiri (Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Ratri (Sanskrit) - Iravu (Original Tamil word) God: Deivam (Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Deva (Sanskrit) - Kadavul/Iraivan (Original Tamil word)

Great video! I had a big interest in Tamil recently and this came up right on time!

Thank you, Julie, for putting so much work into covering the less-talked-about languages of the world and of course for bringing your personality to these videos! Your presentations are always worth watching and getting even better every time.

தமிழ் ❤ #It's not only language, Tamizh it's pride of the nation #All India language mother ( Tamil ) #யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்

மிக்க நன்றி.. for picking up the topic as Tamil and explaining the language, research..!

I'm proud to be Tamil from Sri Lanka. Good work.🎉. keep it up🎉. தமிழ் வாழ்க.

I’m learning so much with your channel, thank you for the efforts and the quality put into your videos :)

Wow! That was so insightful! Thank you very much for that overview!

Your channel is amazing. Informative, and sonically as visually pleasing.

Mind blowing. I myself a Tamilian from Malaysia very impressed with your knowledge of Tamil language history. Great work, keep it up! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Sadly the current Indian government doesn’t share your view of unity within plurality/ diversity, great job and enjoy your channel.

தமிழனா இருப்பதில் பெருமை 🔥🔥♥️♥️

தமிழ் மொழியை பற்றி பேசியதற்காக மிக்க நன்றி 🙏💕 Love you from Tamilnadu....

வாழ்த்துகள் இந்த பதிவிற்காக.

Great! I'm from the philippines and I love Indian(Hindi ,Assam ,sanskrit etc.) and sri lankan(sinhalese & tamil) script...I would like to suggest do ilocano dialect or filipino, the ancient script is very designful and it is said that it was originated from the Brahmi writting system when Indians traded with Malay,Indos and Filipino many yrs ago

Tamil is older than sanskrit and spoken even before vedic period, probably before birth of hinduism. Sanskrit became a death language but tamil is still spoken in TN. Fascinating and incredible

I wonder, How come this channel hasn't reached millions of subscribers?? Very informative!!

These videos are always so accurate and in-depth and touch on so many topics I've never seen anyone else talk about. I've only read about South Asian genetics in articles and blogs, never seen anyone mention it in a RU-vid video. And everything else too, your videos are really hidden gems of this side of RU-vid

Thank you for this in depth video on the oldest classical language. Tamil Thevarams written during 6-8th century are true treasures! Beautiful compositions overflowing with love and devotion describing the rich landscape and animals. The tunes are built into the tamil words itself. Poetry and language blend together seamlessly. The literary work that is currently recovered is just a fraction of what was there and it is heart warming to see the renewed enthusiasm to rediscover what was once lost! The same Tamil being used today as was in the Sangam Times 6th Century. The continuity and viability of the language to serve so well even in 2022!

Excellent video, thorough background research, thanks for an enlightening and educating video. First few minutes of the year 2024 well spent. A language enthusiast from Tamizhagam. தமிழ் வாழ்க.

very nice presentation Akka.... i think you have more God blesses and congratulations,,,,thank you

This is very interesting! Thank you!

This is beautiful. Tamil is also the only language which has alphabet for Letters of Weaponry and its represented by 3 dots.

Wow Julie, you just nailed those pronunciations. Even North indians don't pronouns these sounds properly. As a foreigner you pronounced ழ perfectly. Kudos to you!

Thank you much JuLingo , Beautiful Content..... another important information, you may keep Tamil as your name, which is another specialty of this language ....

Interesting detail on Dravida being actually Tamil in Samskrit. And about voting a language on a next video: *Phrygian* if extinct languages count.

Excellant video except for a minor correction but profound. Lord Shiva taught tamil through Agasthiyar to tamils to 'pottri katti kakka'. Rough translation to be proud, hail, embrace and protect the language. Lord Muruga gave wisdom to the tamils through Thamizh Vedam.

Indepth analysis as much as possible and great presentation. Appreciate your efforts

Well researched. Amazing work 🎉

It is not the Dravidian language It is the unique oldest language To hide it's cultural identities and it's unique traditional values of tamilians, it is hide behind the name Dravidian language

Thanks for another great video Julie 🙂 very interesting

Nice research 👏🏼 Support from #Tamilnadu❤️👍🏽

Thank you very much for your detailed explanation About our Tamil Language. Good work. Expecting more articles about Tamil Language from you in the same style

Mother of all languages #TAMIL❤️‍🔥🔥

வாழ்க தமிழ் ♥️ Mother of all the languages in the world 🌍

Wow, this really is a thoroughly-researched presentation on Tamizh and its history. May I also thank you for an equally enjoyable presentation on Euskara and Welsh? I've always wondered about these as oddities existing in countries that have a rich, fairly ancient and well-established language of their own (Spain, France and the UK), and your videos made it so easy to understand the backgrounds. 🙏🏼

This is such good content, JuLingo, but why do you keep spelling 'conscious' 'concious'? Something I don't know?

As one of the Tamilan I want to share this. Tamil is not only language for us, more than that, its our culture. "Thirukural" is highly ever translated non religious scripture in the world, which was actually written in Tamil by "Thiruvalluvar" and its not only that, it is the worldly accepted scripture too because of its ultimate selfless way of telling the people in the world how to live a happy life in a truth full and meaning full way in 1330 two line stanzas (kural), each 10 kural is classified into 133 sub headings and 133 sub headings classified into 3 main headings "MORALITY (aram), MEANING (porull), HAPPINESS (inbam)". Kindly note Thirukural is one of the examples, there are more than 1000+ scriptures in Tamil which are so pure and contains selfless contents which can be followed by everyone around the world. Our ancestors and poets always wants us to preserve this beautiful language because of its beautiful and rich content and called it Tamil culture since everyone would follow it and continue speaking this language which contains almost all the answers for our future queries. 3000 yrs back ago a Tamil poet wrote "yaadhum uure yavarun kalir" means "Where ever I go it is my place and everyone there are my kith and kin" this line was addressed by our late president "Dr. A. P. J. Abdhul Kalam" (who is also a Tamilan) in European Parliment. When government of India announces Hindi as official Language in India most of Tamil nadu school puts under into a pressure to teach Hindi despite of Tamil and then, Our people of Tamil Nadu and all around the world Tamil speakers showed how important this language to us(through peaceful protest). We Tamil people even have a temple for our language, which portraits a female goddess statue called our Tamil mother "Tamil thai". "Tamilukum amudhendru per", "Senthamilnadennum podhinile", this two songs were written by great poets of Tamil, later made into movie songs and albums still available in youtube, describes the love and beauty of Tamil. There is a Tamil Nadu state anthem "Tamil thai vaalthu", Tamil anthem "Semozhiyam Tamizh Mozhi". We Tamil people despite of religions or inter caste issue should be united and selfless like our beautiful Tamil language.

Thanks for sharing, fascinating culture and language. Truly humble people 🙏🏽

You are extremely knowledgeable and your videos are very informative. Please keep up the good work. Keen to know which country you belong to.

Good research appreciated and subscribed 😗😗👌👌👌