Heard my monolingual Aachi say "எல்லாம் நார்மலமா இருக்குன்னு சொல்லிட்டாங்க பாப்பா" (with regard to her glucose test). I wonder if she added the அம் (-am) suffix to the English word "normal" by analogy with Tamil abstract nouns or is that some phonological adaptation? #CodeMixing
Is it related to paka ("cook")?
As of now, a lot of theories regarding the antiquity of language and culture in Tamil Nadu are being dismissed too early in favour of other well-entrenched theories which suffer from inadequate information and bias. This should correct for that.
I see this as top of the funnel in terms of making bold claims. This should shake up the research community towards spending more light on TN in the areas of archaeology, linguistics etc. Then it'd go through levels of rigour, ending in well-supported set of facts.
இனிய குடியரசுநாள் வாழ்த்து! Happy Republic Day of India!
Today I learned that our national animal which we see in bright orange appears green to its prey, hence it's camouflaged. PC: The Brain Maze
www.iflscience.com/we-now-know-...
www.quora.com/How-does-Mal... I wrote about the first phenomenon earlier. The second one, a few of us are still researching.
Secondly we develop an ear to a language with exposure over time.
There are a few known phonotactical differences (tendencies of which phonemes can follow which and which part of the word). Malayalam has geminated (doubled) nasals where Tamil has a nasal and a stop (மஞ்சள் vs. மஞ்ஞள்). Kannada is often denasalised. In addition word initial p has become h (paal>haalu).
இனிய பொங்கல் வாழ்த்து! Happy Pongal! ポンガルおめでとう。Wrote this little stub on Pongal in Japanese Wikipedia taking loads of help from the wife and Google. ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%...
Very interesting. Could this explain why phonotactically harmonious loanwords get absorbed into a language better (they inflect and derive as if they were native) than others? Tamil has a loanword villan that sounds native (in fact has a native homophone) and absorbed better than "scan".
Someone just reminded me of பற்றும் which would be பத்தும் in speech. It’s still a nice coincidence!
I've always wondered whether #Tamil பத்தும் was a variant of Std. Tamil போதும் (enough, sufficient). Today a colleague used #Japanese 十分 (jūbun) for "enough". It's literally "ten parts">"whole/perfect">"enough"! Is Tamil பத்தும் "all of ten" பத்து+உம்? 🤯
#semanticparallel
